Corpi d’acqua. La svolta idrofemminista di Astrida Neimanis

Antonella De Vita

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-232-8

Corpi d’acqua. La svolta idrofemminista di Astrida Neimanis

Authors

Antonella De Vita

University of Naples L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-232-8

Keywords:

hydrofeminis, ecofeminism, écriture feminine, arts, water

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Postcolonial Matters

Pages: 124

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-28055

Abstract: This volume deals with “hydrofeminism”, formulated by the Canadian writer Astrida Neimanis (2017), lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney: relying on several theoretical backgrounds, such as Hélène Cixous’ and Luce Irigaray’s écriture feminine, Merleau- Ponty’s phenomenology and Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatics, this new philosophical paradigm presents an ecologically-engaged notion of ‘embodiment’, which Neimanis analyses from a ‘watery’ perspective, showing how a new understanding of bodies can change our attitude towards the waters of our Earth. Antonella De Vita ‘translates’ this interest for the Italian readership: after exploring in detail the main features of hydrofeminism and explaining their relevance in the context of current debates on new materialism, post-humanism and environmental humanities, the author presents her translation of the introduction of Bodies of Water. Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (2017), and ‘translates’ Neimanis’ figuration of ‘bodies of water’ into the language of women’s visual art and performance, devotingkeen attention both to international and to Mediterranean artists.

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Author Biography

Antonella De Vita, University of Naples L'Orientale

Antonella De Vita graduated with honours from the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, with a master’s course in Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Europe and America and a thesis with publishing proposal, entitled “Bodies of Water di Astrida Neimanis: Percorsi ‘liquidi’ di traduzione”. Thanks to her academic achievements, she had the opportunity to win a grant for a specialisation course in “Communication, Global Marketing and Made in Italy”, distributed by the Fondazione Italia USA in collaboration with the Centro Studi Comunicare L’Impresa, as well as one of ten training grants dispensed by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici for participating at a series of seminars on Political Ecology, named “Ecologie Politiche del Presente”. She is the author of the Italian translation of Bodies of Water. Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis (2017), and intervened with the research unit Matriarchivio del Mediterraneo at the seminars “Ecoarchivi femministi” (8 May2019) and “Figurazioni cosmopolitiche e cosmopoetiche. Ecologie femminili dell’ospitalità” (21 February 2020), both part of“Ecologie Politiche del Presente”.