African “ghosts” and the myth of “Italianness”: the presence of migrant writers in Italian literature

In this article, I analyze the cultural meaning of the emergence of an African migrant literature in Italy at the beginning of the 1990s and its presence today. I put this emergence in dialogue with the construction of Italian identity as white. Through a brief historical account of how this social...

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Main Author: Anita Virga
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2019-06-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
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Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/6276