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Accusata

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Accusata di omicidio e di atti incendiari, Kari Selb lotta con la psicologa del tribunale per affermare, in un monologo incalzante, la propria capacità di intendere e di volere, per il suo passato, per la sua vita. Nell'infiammato discorso, che la vede sdoppiata tra sé e Malik - l'altro sé, quello che agisce - Kari Selb sviluppa via via le fantasie di un serial killer. Senza mai attenersi alle categorie della giustizia e della colpa, Kari-Malik allestisce il crimine sul palcoscenico della sua mente mutilata ed erosa, trovando così una conferma di sé, dal momento che ogni altra identità è negata. Il romanzo illumina con crudezza la psiche di una donna che, come direbbe Artaud "sente il proprio pensiero spostarsi dentro di sé" e descrive la violenta e protratta vicinanza dei corpi in un flusso narrativo incalzante, allucinato ma realista. Con "Accusata" Mariella Mehr, scrittrice svizzera di origini zingare, conclude nel 2002 la trilogia della violenza che comprende "Il Marchio" e "Labambina".

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Published October 1, 2008

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Mariella Mehr

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(1947) Born in Switzerland, Mehr is a poet, novelist, and dramatist belonging to the Yeniche, a nomadic group with Scottish Traveller origins. She identifies with the Romani people and champions the causes of outsiders and oppressed minorities. She was a victim of the government project, Hilfswerk für die Kinder der Landstrasse (“Relief Organisation for Rural Street Children”), which separated Yeniche children from their parents. Mehr was moved between sixteen orphanages and three reformatories as a child. She was committed to a mental institution four times and spent nineteen months in a women’s prison. She is one of the founders of the “International Romani Writer’s Association” (IRWA) in Helsinki which was dissolved in 2008 due to lack of interest by Roma writers and Roma in general. Her debut novel, “Steinzeit” (Stoneage, 1981), was met with high acclaim which, 14 books later, has only grown, and in 1998, her work was recognized with an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. Her poetry, translated into English, is featured in The Roads of the Roma: a PEN anthology of Gypsy Writers.

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