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Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature

Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature

Romeo, Caterina

Hardcover

Series: Italian and Italian American Studies

Literary CriticismItalian History

ISBN10: 3031100425
ISBN13: 9783031100420
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 18 2023
Pages: 271
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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 italianità, 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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