Silvia Tellini

By sharing the experiences of women and the black community of her time, represented as a journey towards womanhood on stage, Afro- American playwright Ntozake Shange deconstructs the patriarchal structure of language, by pushing the boundaries of genres as she assembles prose, poetry and stage performance in a “choreopoem” capable of empowering and liberating the trajectories of the represented black women. The present study explores the semiotic and linguistic deconstructions of the patriarchal ideology in for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, aiming at a discussion of the author’s experimentalism with language outside instituted discursive paradigms regarding women. Considering that the concept of the liberation of the individual is strongly historicized in the play, the characters of the seven ladies are focalized as being tightly related to the feminist movement in North America in the seventies. Furthermore, the implications of ideological im...

The present work is a reading of the tension forces between the modern and what some critique calls ‘post-modern’ logics in constant dispute, by focusing on detective Christopher Banks’ narrative, in Kazuo Ishiguro’s fifth novel, When We Were Orphans (2000). The binary positivist logics of this narrative encounter a world where the simplistic jigsaw puzzle solving rationality cannot aid to signify the new social and political context, now under extreme changes. Therefore, this analysis discusses with cultural studies the implications of new theories regarding the concepts of identity and memory, in its interrelations to the sociological and historical discursive aspects of collective memories in the narrative.