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Author Brioni, Simone, author

Title The Somali within : language, race and belonging in minor Italian literature / Simone Brioni
Published Cambridge : Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 176 pages) : illustrations
Series Italian perspectives ; 33
Italian perspectives ; 33. 1464-1879
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Translation and Alphabetization; List of Figures; Introduction: The Somali Italian Encounter; Notes to the Introduction; 1 Language; Translating the Distance: Footnotes, Parallel Texts, Glossaries; Translating Distance in Proximity: In-text Translations and Contextualizations; Translating in Proximity: Modifying Italian and Foregrounding Somali; Deterritorialization and the Position of the Intercultural Translator; Notes to Chapter 1; 2 Race; The Split Somali Italian Identity in Il latte è buono
Mixophobia, Islamophobia, and the Writing of the Body in Madre piccolaThe Use of Irony in Fra-intendimenti; The South of the World, United, in Oltre Babilonia and Rhoda; Meticciato and Cultural Racism in 'Identità', 'Salsicce', and Nuvole sull'equatore; Political Immediacy and Rhizomatic Chronotopes; Notes to Chapter 2; 3 Belonging; Double Elitist and Male Affiliations in Il latte è buono; Weaving Diasporic Voices in Madre piccola; The Somali Italian Borderland in Oltre Babilonia; Collective Assemblage and Autobiography; Notes to Chapter 3; Conclusion: Becoming; Note to the Conclusion
Summary "The recent histories of Italy and Somalia are closely linked. Italy colonized Somalia from the end of the 19th century to 1941, and held the territory by UN mandate from 1950 to 1960. Italy is also among the destination countries of the Somali diaspora, which increased in 1991 after civil war. Nonetheless, this colonial and postcolonial cultural encounter has often been neglected. Critically evaluating Gilles Deleuze and F'x Guattari's concept of 'minor literature', as well as drawing on postcolonial literary studies, The Somali Within analyses the processes of linguistic and cultural translation and self-translation, the political engagement with race, gender, class and religious discrimination, and the complex strategies of belonging and unbelonging at work in the literary works in Italian by authors of Somali origins. Brioni proposes that the 'minor' Somali Italian connection might offer a major insight into the transnational dimension of contemporary 'Italian' literature and 'Somali' culture."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 11, 2018)
Subject Italian literature -- Foreign authors -- History and criticism
Race in literature.
Discrimination in literature.
Authors, Somali -- Italy
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Authors, Somali
Discrimination in literature
Race in literature
Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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