American Feminist Epics in the Age of Disaster is a literary seminary dedicated to experimental authors Jennifer Scappetone and Giannina Braschi.
Università degli Studi di Udine
November 7th – December 9th, 2023
Settimo seminario internazionale di poesia angloamericana moderna in traduzione
Prof. Daniela Daniele
American Feminist Epics in the Age of Disaster
Jennifer Scappettone and Giannina Braschi
International Seminar on Anglo-American Poetry in Translation.
November 14-December 9, 2023
American Feminist Epics in the Age of Disaster: Jennifer Scappettone and Giannina Braschi
American Feminist Epics: Graduate Seminar
- Daniela Daniele: Introduction to American Feminist Epics in the Age of Disaster: Jennifer Scappettone and Giannina Braschi
- Translation Workshop: Texts by Jennifer Scappettone
- Lecture by Jennifer Scappettone: “American Feminist Epics: Murky Verges and Gatherings of Fragments: Detritus of the Epic in Feminist Poetry of the North American Continent”
- Book presentation of illustrated Italian translation of Yo-Yo Boing!
- Translation workshop: Jennifer Scappettone
- Translation workshop: Giannina Braschi
- Jennifer Scappettone lectures on: “Chloris in Plural Voices: Xenoglossia vs. Global English in Poetry of the United States” (Rome, Il Museo del Louvre)
- Giannina Braschi lectures on: “To Create a Genre“
- Daniele Pomilio presents “Animated backcloth, graphemes and found footage inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing A Deluge”
- Anna Scannavini presents graphic edition of Yo-Yo Boing! in Italian translation. (Campanotto Editore)
- Reading by Giannina Braschi and Tess O’Dwyer (Rome, Il Museo del Louvre)
American Feminist Epics Seminar
Female Epic Literature
This list of Female Epic Literature was AI generated:
- Barrett Browning, Elizabeth (United Kingdom): Aurora Leigh (1856) A foundational “verse novel” of over 10,000 lines that creates a modern, female-centric epic for the 19th century.
- Belli, Gioconda (Nicaragua): The Inhabited Woman (1988) A dual-timeline epic linking modern revolutionary resistance with ancestral indigenous struggles against Spanish conquest.
- Braschi, Giannina (Puerto Rico/USA): Empire of Dreams Epic Poetry (1988) A postmodern verse epic that utilizes classical structures to dramatize the Puerto Rican diaspora and the cultural landscape of New York City. United States of Banana on the liberation of Puerto Rico.
- Brooks, Gwendolyn (USA): Annie Allen (1949) Specifically “The Anniad,” which utilizes a mock-heroic structure to chronicle the life of a Black woman in the urban United States.
- Condé, Maryse (Guadeloupe): Segu (1984) A sweeping historical prose epic following the Traoré family through the fall of the Bambara Empire in West Africa.
- De la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés (Mexico): Primero sueño (1692) A philosophical and scientific epic poem detailing the soul’s flight through the universe to achieve total understanding.
- Enheduanna (Sumeria): The Descent of Inanna (c. 2300 BCE) The earliest recorded epic journey, exploring the descent of the goddess into the underworld and her subsequent transformation.
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (USA): Helen in Egypt (1961) A book-length poem that serves as a feminist revision of the Trojan War, centered on the psychological and spiritual journey of Helen.
- Morrison, Toni (USA): Beloved (1987) A monumental prose epic that addresses the foundational national trauma of American slavery through the lens of memory and maternal sacrifice.
- Notley, Alice (USA): The Descent of Alette (1996) A modern verse epic that reimagines the “katabasis” (descending into the underworld) within the setting of a dark, metaphorical subway system.
- Sarrocchi, Margherita (Italy): La Scanderbeide (1623) A rigorous historical verse epic concerning the military exploits of George Castriot (Scanderbeg) against Ottoman expansion.