Viaggi coloniali. Politica, letteratura e tecnologia in movimento tra Ottocento e Novecento (2020)
Mario Coglitore (Author)
Il Poligrafo
Physical Details: 160 pp.
Language: Italian
Questo volume esamina lo spostamento europeo oltremare di uomini, immaginazioni e tecnologie tra fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento. Sintassi e grammatiche di partenze e ritorni, di deviazioni e incontri, ingaggiano parole che descrivono concrezioni culturali intrecciate e più spesso contrapposte irrimediabilmente. Il linguaggio della politica, declinato nella prima parte di questo saggio tramite il racconto delle peregrinazioni del console Roger Casement, autore del Congo Report sui crimini belgi nell’Africa equatoriale, apre la narrazione e prelude, negli aspetti in qualche modo “letterari” della sua avventura umana, alla vorticosa e sorprendente vena romanzesca di Emilio Salgari – cui viene dedicata la seconda parte del lavoro –, indiscusso maestro della scrittura sul viaggio e del viaggio in terre fantastiche quanto realisticamente descritte attraverso una minuziosa conoscenza di paesaggi, ambienti antropici, climi, zoologie. Nella terza parte del volume, infine, l’irruzione della tecnologia nell’immaginario europeo, a cavallo tra XIX e XX secolo, delinea, con la riscrittura del territorio intrapresa a mezzo delle reti ferroviarie, il principale contrappunto della colonizzazione occidentale. La vicenda della linea Congo-Oceano, stesa per congiungere la capitale dell’allora Congo francese al mare, ne rappresenta un elemento storico emblematico con la scia di morti che portò con sé tra gli indigeni reclutati per la posa dei binari nel corso di quella dolorosa epopea di sangue e metallo. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… This volume examines the overseas European movement of people, imaginations and technologies between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Syntax and grammars of departures and returns, of detours and encounters, involve words that describe intertwined cultural concretions and more often irretrievably opposed. The language of politics, declined in the first part of this essay through the account of the wanderings of consul Roger Casement, author of the Congo Report on Belgian crimes in equatorial Africa, opens the narrative and preludes, in the somewhat "literary" aspects of his human adventure, to the novelistic talent of Emilio Salgari - to whom the second part of the work is dedicated -, undisputed master of writing about travel and travel in fantastic lands as realistically described through a meticulous knowledge of landscapes, anthropic environments, climates, zoologies. Finally, in the third part of the volume, the eruption of technology into the European imagination, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, outlines, with the rewriting of the territory undertaken by means of railway networks, the main counterpoint of Western colonization. The story of the Congo-Ocean line, stretched to connect the capital of the then French Congo to the sea, represents an emblematic historical element with the trail of deaths it brought with it among the indigenous people recruited to lay the tracks during the painful one. epic of blood and metal.]
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