Alterazioni del trauma bellico nella contemporaneità dall’Europa al Giappone

FABRIZIO IMPELLIZZERI is a full professor of French Literature at the University of Catania. He mainly deals with rewritings of the self, auto-sociobiography, banlieuepoétique, post-migration, fin de siècle industrial literature, dandyism, the study of erotic sublimation, intersemiotics and cine-literature. His publications cover the period from the 19th to the 21st century and deal with authors such as Genet, Klossowski, Tinan, Sachs, Jouve, Colette, Willy, Batista, Benchetrit, Ulonati and Téchiné. He is the founder and director of the Visages Interuniversity Research Centre, which studies variations and hybridisms in autobiographical writing in French-language literature.

LUCA CAPPONCELLI is an associate professor of Japanese language and literature at the University of Catania. He studies modern and postmodern Japanese poetry and fiction, with a focus on the psychological and physical disarticulation of the self, explored through the themes of illness, metamorphosis, doppelgängers and cyborg identity. His research includes the early 20th century and the post-war period, with particular reference to literary modernism and Japanese dystopian imagery. His most recent publications deal with the poets Yosano Akiko, Hagiwara Sakutarō and Ishikawa Takuboku, the modernism of Kajii Motojirō and Satō Haruo, and the science-fiction of Numa Shōzō.

MARTINA GUCCIONE is a PhD student in French Literature at the University of Catania. Her research interests focus on autobiographical works produced by Italian immigrants in France between the 19th and 21st centuries. She also studies rewritings of the self in contemporary French literature and issues of identity and translingualism in the French-speaking Mediterranean area. She has published several articles on Édouard Louis and the French-speaking writer Cécile Oumhani. She is also a collaborating member of the Visages Interuniversity Research Centre, which studies variations and hybridism in autobiographical writing in French-language literature.