This seminar session will be dedicated to Deledda’s legacy in the United States. “I’ve developed these events with my eye on the future. Dialogue between Italian scholars and leading North American researchers on Grazia Deledda allows us to consider the revolutionary and universal aspects of the great Sardinian author, a source of inspiration to the young” explains Valeria Orani, the New York-based curator of the seminar in collaboration with the Institutional Committee for the 150th Anniversary of Grazia Deledda, including representatives from the Province and Town of Nuoro, MAN, UniNuoro, and the Bank of Sardegna Foundation. For Anthony Muroni, the Committee’s Artistic Director, “It is especially important that the city of New York, with its history of freedom, defense of civil rights, and attention to the role of women in society, should participate in this homage to an author who lifted restrictions on women and set out before anyone else on the road of self-determination, as rendered in the lives of the protagonists of her novels.” Muroni’s words are echoed by Constantino Tidu, Chief Administrator of the Province of Nuoro and head of the Institutional Committee, who adds, “The New York seminar is particularly important for presenting the figure and work of Deledda to a sophisticated and sensitive North American readership.”
New York City, NY; NYC