“…least as far as the terminology goes), but they continued afterwards with reinvigorated theoretical energy within, and overlapping with, the "metacritical" phase this piece is particularly focused on. This is as true for Diasporas/Immigration/Emigration studies, continued for example by Fiore (2012Fiore ( , 2017 as it is for the Southern Question (Wong 2006;Dickie 1997) and self-orientalization (Re 2009;Coburn 2013;Sorrentino 2014;Virga 2017, but also Sneider 1998Lombardi-Diop, Giuliani 2013). It is particularly true for migrant writing studies, with Parati (2005), Di Maio (2001Maio ( , 2008, Mauceri and Negro (2009), Quaquarelli (2010), Portelli (1999, 2006), Comberiati (2009), Brioni (2015, Burns (2003Burns ( , 2013, Lori (2013), Ponzanesi (2004Ponzanesi ( , 2017 to mention but a few book-length studies 8 .…”