This article addresses the narrative, political, and epistemological potential of theorising Europe from its South. It does so by focusing on the Italian context and by exploring how literary forms, political practices, and academic scholarship can articulate alternative visions of Europe beyond hegemonic paradigms of progress and security.…[Read more]

This article discusses Jhumpa Lahiri’s recent turn to Italian through a formal and linguistic analysis of the creative and editorial projects she has undertaken in the last decade. By analyzing the author’s trajectory from In Other Words (2016) to Whereabouts (2021) and by discussing two short stories she has published in the interval between her…[Read more]

This chapter explores Italy’s methodologies of Blackness in relation to post- coloniality by tracing a trajectory of emergence from the field of literary fiction to cur- rent artistic practices characterised by a broader diversification of forms and media. It contends that these practices are calling postcolonial publics into existence by adopt- i…[Read more]

This article examines contemporary Somali diasporic literature by proposing a comparative analysis of Nuruddin Farah’s Maps and a selection of texts written by authors of Somali origin currently writing in Italian: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Cristina Ubah Ali Farah, and Igiaba Scego. Drawing on diaspora studies, theories of narrative space, and c…[Read more]

This essay analyzes Tsitsi dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and argues that this novel appropriates and resignifies the bildungsroman, thus demonstrating that this genre cannot provide a symbolic resolution for the “nervous condition” of the colonized subject. To do so, I integrate a world- systemic approach with a formalist analysis of genre…[Read more]