Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature
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Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature

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Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature

About this book

This book argues for the importance of adopting a postcolonial perspective in analysing contemporary Italian culture and literature. Originally published in Italian in 2018 as Riscrivere la nazione: La letteratura italiana postcoloniale, this new English translation brings to light the connections between the present, the colonial past and the great historical waves of international and intranational migration. By doing so, the book shows how a sense of Italian national identity emerged, at least in part, as the result of different migrations and why there is such a strong resistance in Italy to extending the privilege of italianitĂ , or Italianness, to those who have arrived on Italian soil in recent years. Exploring over 100 texts written by migrant and second-generation writers, the book takes an intersectional approach to understanding gender and race in Italian identity. It connects these literary and cultural contexts to the Italian colonial past, while also looking outwards to a more diffuse postcolonial condition in Europe.


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Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783031100420
eBook ISBN
9783031100437

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Introduction: Decolonizing Italian Literature
  4. 2. Italian Postcolonial Literature: An Overview
  5. 3. Gender and Its Intersections
  6. 4. Defying the Chromatic Norm: Race, Blackness, (In)Visibility, Italianness, Citizenship
  7. 5. Geographies of Diaspora and New Urban Mappings
  8. Back Matter

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