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]