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André Brink. Imaginings of Sand
  • You can tell me all about what happened.
  • Thats not important, Kristien. There are other
    things. I think you have forgotten most of what
    you knew... Ill give you back your memory.
  • You know I wont forget you. Not ever.
  • It isnt me Kristien. Its all the others, the
    ones before us
  • (58, corsivo aggiunto)

2
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  • in old tales storytellers are very often women,
    witches, and prophets. The African griot and
    griotte are well known for being poet,
    storyteller, historian, musician and magician
    all at once. But why truth at all? Why this
    battle for truth and on behalf of truth? I do not
    remember having asked grandmother once whether
    the story she was telling me was true or not.
    (Trinh, 1989, 120)

3
Riscrivere la genealogia femminile. Ritornare
alle radici del racconto e andare oltre.
  • This time we must go further back, said Ouma
    Kristina.
  • Why dont we start from the very beginning?
  • And what do you think is the very beginning?
  • The arrival of the first Müller at the Cape? I
    suggest
  • What have the Müllers got to do with it? she
    asks, irritated. Lets keep the men out of this.
    They came with verse and chapters. Our story is
    different, it doesnt run in a straight line, as
    you should know by now (174)

4
Come termina il ritorno alle origini e la
genealogia della story-teller?
  • Then an elephant came, and blew all the story
    away. (193).

5
Il mito di Adamastor
  • Il mito vuole che il gigante Adamastor, unico dei
    Titani ad aver preferito alla scalata dellOlimpo
    contro il potere degli dei la conquista del regno
    oceanico di Poseidone, sia stato tramutato in
    pietra da Tetide, la Nereide dea delle acque di
    cui si era invaghito, nellatto di volerla
    possedere. Nelle Lusiadi di Camões Tetide si
    offre carnalmente per impedire la guerra, ma al
    momento di essere presa da Adamastor, si tramuta
    in roccia. Secondo la rilettura di Driver, Tetide
    non resta mai confinata nellidea che il poeta,
    il lettore ed il gigante hanno di lei, cioè di
    sterile fredda pietra, ma oscilla, imprevedibile
    ed inafferrabile, tra questelemento e lacqua.
    Ella resta la divinità delloceano, fluida ed
    inafferrabile, femminile in quanto libera, che
    anziché limitarsi nella forma minerale, lima e
    plasma questultima, e la corrode anche. E
    Adamastor a restare confinato nella pietra,
    impossibilitato ad eccedere se stesso.

6
Kamma / Maria - Acqua
  • La Kamma di Brink, dunque, evoca sia la prima
    donna non Eva, ma la prima africana nata dalle
    acque -, che Tetis, la dea delloceano, fluida ed
    inafferrabile.
  • Adamastor_ Adamil primo umo Fondazione
    patriarcale del Capo di Buona Speranza?
  • La figura del Titano è stata resa celebre dal
    poema epico di Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusìades
    (1572) ad esso è dedicata la statua omonima sul
    promontorio di Cape Town, che la leggenda
    popolare vuole assomigli proprio alle fattezze
    del gigante. Ad esso Brink ha dedicato il romanzo
    The First Life of Adamastor (1993).

7
Performatività, contestualità, intertestualità.
Tra postmoderno e postcoloniale.
  • the plot, rather than being invented prior to
    the narrative, is driven by a series of
    situations in which relations are estabilished
    between the various characters. But the text also
    presupposes a relation betwen tha narrator and
    the reader in which the reader is expected to
    imaginatevely engage with the characters
    thoughts, desire and actions. In this way,
    reading itself constiutes a situation in which
    the reader functions as actoractively
    partecipating in a historically changing
    situation... the reader of Imaginings of Sand is
    asked to accept Ouma Kristinas skilful
    interweaving of myth and reality as her version
    of the truth at the same time as seeing the
    historical changes that are sweeping across
    contemporary South Africa as fraught but
    inevitabile process.
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