2019
DOI: 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.56i1.6276
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African “ghosts” and the myth of “Italianness”: the presence of migrant writers in Italian literature

Abstract: In this article, I analyze the cultural meaning of the emergence of an African migrant literature in Italy at the beginning of the 1990s and its presence today. I put this emergence in dialogue with the construction of Italian identity as white. Through a brief historical account of how this social construction came into being, I verify how African migrant literature contests this (de)racialized myth of “Italianness.” Using Gordon’s concept of “haunting,” I argue that African literature within Italian literatu… Show more

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