Marco Medugno

Literature of the Somali Diaspora

Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian
Herausgeber: Falola, Toyin; Adelakun, Abimbola

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Building on the recent, emerging body of scholarship on world literature in multilingual contexts and the rapidly expanding field of Italian postcolonial studies, this book is the first to examine Somali literature from the diaspora with a global perspective. It examines works written in English and Italian by Somali authors, arguing that Somali literature's diasporic and multilingual dimensions make it a model for conceptualizing world literature today. Books discussed include acclaimed novels such as Nuruddin Farah's Links and Crossbones, Igiaba Scego's Adua and Cristina Ali Farah's Little Mother"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765107485
• Artikelnr.: 69681443

Autorenporträt

Marco Medugno is Associate Lecturer at Newcastle University, UK. He has published articles in journals of both Italian and Postcolonial studies, including From the European South and Italian Studies in Southern Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Permissions Note on Text
Introduction: Writing the Diaspora Chapter 1. Key Places in the Somali
Diasporic Imaginary Chapter 2. Literary Cartographies of Mogadishu Chapter
3. Multilingualism in Farah's Links and Crossbones Chapter 4. The Spoken
Word Meets the Script: Somali, Italian and the Role of Orature Chapter 5.
Resistance and impegno: Postcolonial Somali Novels in Italian and
Letteratura della Resistenza Conclusion: Re-inventing Somalias Appendix
References Index