PUBBLICAZIONI
MATTA, M (forthcoming) “A Sweet Requiem for Tibet sung from Neighbourhood: Majnu Ka Tilla. Memory and Trauma in Tibetan Diasporic Narratives”
MATTA, M (forthcoming) “The Baghdadi Jews of Calcutta: Nostalgic Narratives of a ‘Diaspora of Hope’ in the Novel The Teak Almirah by Jael Silliman”.
MATTA, M (forthcoming 2020) “Voci di donne fuori dal coro: memoria culturale e storia di genere nel romanzo del Bangladesh”, in: La narrativa del nuovo millennio, Mimesis Ed., Roma, pp.
MATTA, M (in peer-review) “Nudity in Diversity: Bodies of Protest in Contemporary Indian Theatre”.
MATTA M (forthcoming 2020) “Tibetan Diasporic Cinema: Traces of Memory, Visions of Hope”, in: Shelly Bhoil (ed.) Negotiating Dispossession: Tibetan Subjectivities on a Global Stage, Lexington Press.
MATTA, M (2020) “Polyandry, Sexuality and the (Mis)representation of Indigenous Women on Indian Screens. The Case of the Monpa Language Film Sonam: The Fortunate One”, In: Erik De Maaker and Markus Schleiter (eds). Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia, London: Routledge, pp.
MATTA, M (2019) "Profiling Tibetan Diasporic Cinema from a Gender Perspective", in: Giacomella Orofino (ed.) Wind Horses Tibetan, Himalayan and Mongolian Studies, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” - DIPARTIMENTO DI ASIA, AFRICA E MEDITERRANEO (Series Minor LXXXVIII), and ISMEO Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente (ISBN 978-88-6719-175-8), Napoli, pp. 297-316.
MATTA, M (2019) “Beyond the Mystic Line: A Diasporic Tibetan Cinema of Nostalgia”, Rivista di Studi Orientali, Roma: Sapienza Università di Roma, pp. 189-206.
MATTA, M (2018) “Calcutta Blues: mappe sensoriali e percorsi della nostalgia nel dramma Calcutta Kosher di Shelley Silas”, in: Gala Maria Follaco; Giulia Rampolla (eds.) Le metropoli in Asia. Roma: Viella, pp. 79-103.
MATTA, M (2018) “L’urlo ferino di Kishwar Naheed”, in: Naheed, Kishwar; Bisogni, Cecilia. Poesie Scelte. Monterotondo: Fuorilinea Ed. (preface).
MATTA, Mara (2018). "«The Karma of Chicken Curry»: Tibetan Masala Films and Youth Narratives of Exile". ANNALI DI CA’ FOSCARI, vol. 54 (June 2018), pp. 289-317. SERIE ORIENTALE, ISSN: 2385-3042
MATTA M. (2017) “Nudo di donna: ri(s)coprire la Devi”, In: Marianna Ferrara, Alessandro Saggioro, Giuseppina Paola Viscardi (eds.) LE VERITÀ DEL VELO, Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, pp.281-322.
MATTA M (2017) “The Novel and the Northeast: a Story of the Tribal Literatures in Modern and Contemporary Times.” In: Rossella Ciocca; Neelam Srivastava (eds) One yet many? Narrating the Indian Nation 65 years later, LONDON: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 199-221.
MATTA M (2016) “Chinese Mirch Masala: films, songs and food to rethink the catching slogan of ‘Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai’ in contemporary times” In: Tommaso Previato (a cura di) Moving across borders in China. ROMA: Aracne.
MATTA M (2016) “Multilingualism and Indigenous Cinema in Northeast India: The Case of Kokborok Language Films” In: Lisa Patti; Tijana Mamula (eds) Multilingual Cinemas. London/New York: Bloomsbury.
MATTA M (2016) ‘Through the Women’s Body: Staging Rebellion in the Play Purdah by Ismail Mahomed’, Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Vol. XVI, No. 2, Published by Women’s Initiatives, Thiruvananthapuram (Special issue on women and theatre, guest edited by Arya Madhavan), pp. 109-133.
MATTA M (2016) “Why Nobody Is Playing (with) Water? Rehearsing Revolution in Mahasweta Devi’s Play Jal,” Journal of Social Sciences, Dhaka: Centre for Social Sciences, Dhaka University, pp. 1-22.
MATTA M (2015) “The Khāsi New Wave: addressing indigenous issues from a literary and cinematic perspective.” Anglistica. An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 19, N. 1, Special Edition, Rossella Ciocca and Sanjukta Das Gupta (eds) Out of Hidden India: Adivasi Histories, Stories, Visualities and Performances, pp. 51-67 .
MATTA M (2015) “Theatre for Social Change in the Tibetan Diaspora: Cultural Politics and the Daimon of Art in Little Lhasa”, CHAOS: IUB Studies in Language, Literature and Creative Writing. A Journal of the Dept. of English (IUB), Vol. 3, n. 2, Dhaka: Independent University of Bangladesh.
MATTA M (2015) “‘Womanizing' nature in India: a few considerations on the 2 in politics of representation of tribal women in Bengali fiction.” RIVISTA DEGLI STUDI ORIENTALI (RSO), nuova serie, VOL. LXXXVIII, Supplemento No 2 dal titolo THE HUMAN PERSON AND NATURE IN CLASSICAL AND MODERN INDIA, Roma-Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Ed.
MATTA M (2015) Nepal: A Theatre for Better Reasons. Monterotondo (RM): Fuorilinea Ed., Collana ‘Quadranti’.
MATTA M (2015) “From ‘The madwoman in the attic’ to ‘The queer stranger in in the closet’: sexuality and migration at the crossroads.” In: Šarūnas Paunksnis (ed.) Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance. Leiden and Boston: Brill and Rodopi.
MATTA M (2014) “Laughter Across Borders: The Case of the Bollywood Film Tere Bin Laden. In Gayatri Devi; Najat Rahman (eds) Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series, Wayne State University Press.
MATTA M, GHOSH S (2014) “Il “glossario di sopravvivenza” di un migrante dal Bangladesh.” Mosca Mondadori Arnoldo; Cacciatore Alfonso; Triulzi Alessandro (a cura di) Bibbia e Corano a Lampedusa. Il lamento e la lode. Liturgie migranti. BRESCIA: La Scuola.
MATTA M (2014) “Searching for a (New) Cinematic Language in Tibet.” In: Erberto Lo Bue (ed.) Tibet between Myth and Reality. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, Gabinetto G.P. Vieusseux, Firenze, 14 marzo 2012.
MATTA M (2013) “Mille romanzi, mille letterature.” EAST: Rivista di geopolitica, vol. 48, Roma, pp. 84-85.
MATTA M (2012) Scena Tibet. Monterotondo (RM): Fuorilinea Ed.
MATTA M (2010) Oltre la consapevolezza in parole semplici. ROMA: Ubaldini - Astrolabio Editore. (traduzione)
MATTA M (2010) Buddhismo e scienza. Storia di un amore (di Donald J. Lopez). ROMA: Ubaldini- Astrolabio Editore. (traduzione)
MATTA M (2009) “Liminal Gazes: Reflections on Tibetan Diasporic Cinema.” In: Tibetan Arts in Transition. A Journey through Theatre, Cinema and Painting. Roma: Asia Onlus.
MATTA, M. e DONATI, V. (2008) Le arti tibetane in transizione. Roma: Asia Onlus ISBN: 978-88-906085-3-7
MATTA M (2008) “Joymoti: A film by Jyotiprasad Agarwala”, Deep Focus Film Quarterly (now Deep Focus Cinema Magazine), Bangalore, India 2008.
MATTA M (2008) "Rebel with a Cause: Debunking the Mythical Mystical Tibet." IIAS Newsletter, No. 47 (Spring), p. 32.
MATTA, M. (2007) Once Upon a Time in Tibet, Roma: Asia Onlus ISBN: 978-88-906085-4-4 (Il primo fumetto sulla storia del Tibet).
MATTA M (2006) Autori tibetani (voci), in: Dizionario degli autori, Milano: Bompiani. ISBN: 88-452-0290-9
MATTA M (2005) “L’urlo muto di Pema Dondhup”, Solidarietà internazionale, Vol. XVI, n. 2, Roma-Milano: Cispi Ed., pp. 41-42. ISSN: 1722-3695