TY - JOUR AU - TIRINO, MARIO PY - 2021/09/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - STELLE PERDUTE. UNA LETTURA SOCIOCULTURALE E MEDIOLOGICA DELLA SCIENCE FICTION DI ROBERTA RAMBELLI JF - Italian Studies in South Africa JA - issa VL - 34 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://italianstudiesinsa.org/index.php/issa/article/view/170 SP - 267 - 298 AB - <p>Starting from the mediology of literature (Ragone, 2019; Amendola &amp; Tirino,<br>2019) and the sociology of narratives (Longo, 2012; Parini, 2017), this paper<br>investigates the literary work of Roberta Rambelli (1928-1996) focusing on four<br>points. First, the link between science fiction novel and social sciences, as<br>Rambelli’s work shows a particular attention to dramaturgically develop some<br>concepts of social sciences (Lippi, 2007). Second, the deep link between<br>science fiction and mythology, as is evident in Il libro di Fars (1961), La pietra<br>di Gaunar (1966), and Profilo in lineare B (1980). Third, the dystopic narration<br>of Italian society: in Il Ministero della Felicità (1972) the author inserts dystopic<br>lumps that challenge the idea of a limitless technological expansion guided by<br>ideas of progress and development, leaving room for a more pessimistic vision<br>of the relationship between science and society. Fourth, the gender question:<br>by contextualising Rambelli’s literary work in the context of the cultural<br>processes of the Italian publishing market in the 1960s and 1970s, the cogency<br>of the gender issue is grasped, in reference to both the need to use male<br>pseudonyms and the prejudice against a woman capable of climbing the<br>hierarchies of the publishing industry.</p> ER -