What is the disturbance theory

Aracoeli 1982 was the last novel written by Elsa Morante 1912 85 one of the most significant Italian writers of the twentieth century The journey both geographical and memorial of a homosexual son in search of his dead mother is a first person narrative that has puzzled many critics for its darkness and despair By combining scholars from different disciplines and cultural traditions this volume re evaluates the esthetical and theoretical complexity of Morante s novel and argues that it engages with crucial philosophical and epistemological questions in an original and profound way Contributors explore the manifold tensions staged by the novel in connection with contemporary philosophical discourse from feminist queer to political theory to psycho analysis and authors such as Emilio Gadda Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pedro Almodovar The Power of Disturbance shows that by creating a hallucinatory representation of the relationship between mother and child Aracoeli questions the classical distinction between subject and object and proposes an altogether new and subversive kind of writing Manuele Gragnolati teaches Italian literature at Oxford University where he is a Fellow of Somerville College Sara Fortuna teaches philosophy of language at the Universita Guglielmo Marconi in Rome The Power of Disturbance Elsa Morante s Aracoeli