Transforming Italy Through Literature and Cinema? Voices and Gazes of Racialised Artists
Annalisa Frisina,
Sandra Agyei Kyeremeh
Abstract:This chapter analyses how the cultural production of racialised artists has exposed the Italian colonial archive and contested the dominant representation of Italians as “good/innocent people”. Based on qualitative research, it shows how racialised artists use literature and cinema as tools to affirm their political subjectivity and to contest the place assigned to children of immigrants in Italian society. The first section focuses on how Black and Muslim women writers have committed themselves to naming the … Show more
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