Beschreibung
Examining five central figures and concepts – identity, memory, home, place and space, and literature – across a range of novels and stories by writers of African and Middle Eastern origin, this book elucidates the affective and expressive processes that inflect migrant story-telling in Italy.
Autorenportrait
Jennifer Burns is Associate Professor in the Department of Italian at the University of Warwick. Her research engages with contemporary Italian literature and culture and has moved from examining notions of political commitment and the ethics of reading and writing in postmodernity to a focus on recent literature authored by migrants in Italy.
Inhalt
Contents: Identity – Memory – Home – Place and Space – Literature.
