Romeo Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-10043-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 271 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Romeo, Caterina

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1 Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Survey.- 2 Gender and its Intersections.- 3 Outside of the Chromatic Norm: Questions of Race, Blackness, Visibility, Italianness and Citizenship.- 4 Politics of (Re)Location: Geographies of Diaspora and New Urban Mappings.

Über Autor(innen)

Caterina Romeo
 is Associate Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, where she teaches Literary Theory, Gender Studies, and Migration Studies. She is the author of
Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale
(2018) and
Narrative tra due sponde: Memoir di italiane d'America
(2005). She has coedited
Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity
(2012),
Postcolonial Europe
(special issue of the journal
Postcolonial Studies
, 2015), and
Intersectional Italy
(special issue of the
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
, 2022).