The Black Body is the story of Anna Maria Gehnyei, also known as singer Karima 2G. Anna was born in Rome to Liberian parents. Wherever Anna goes in Rome, there is always something or someone to remind her that she is Black, so she finds herself continually negotiating two cultures, the Italian one which does not accept her and the African one to which she does not fully belong. Originally published in Italian as Il corpo nero, this new English-language translation by Eilis Kierans and Sandra Waters brings this moving memoir to an Anglophone audience for the first time.
The Black Body is the story of Anna Maria Gehnyei, also known as singer Karima 2G. Anna was born in Rome to Liberian parents. Wherever Anna goes in Rome, there is always something or someone to remind her that she is Black, so she finds herself continually negotiating two cultures, the Italian one which does not accept her and the African one to which she does not fully belong. Originally published in Italian as Il corpo nero, this new English-language translation by Eilis Kierans and Sandra Waters brings this moving memoir to an Anglophone audience for the first time.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
ANNA MARIA GEHNYEI, also known as Karima 2G, is a singer, rapper, dancer, beatsmith, and producer born in Rome to Liberian parents. She is the founder of the Black Lives Matter movement in Rome, Italy. The Black Body, her first book, delves into her experience growing up as a second-generation Black Italian. EILIS KIERANS is assistant professor of teaching in the Italian Department at the Pennsylvania State University. She is coeditor of the translation series Other Voices of Italy at Rutgers University Press. SANDRA WATERS is the managing editor of Italian Quarterly and coedits the Other Voices of Italy series at Rutgers University Press. She is editor of The Spaces and Places of Horror and cotranslator of Porpora Marcasciano’s AntoloGaia: Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir (Rutgers University Press, 2023). IGIABA SCEGO is a Somali Italian writer, cultural activist, and freelance scholar. She was born in Rome to Somali parents who took refuge in Italy following a coup d'état in their native country, where her father served as foreign minister. She holds a PhD in education on postcolonial subjects, has done extensive academic work in Italy and around the world, and has a special interest in immigration and mobility. Her first memoir won Italy's prestigious Mondello Prize. Her novel The Color Line won the Premio Napoli. Scego received the International Viareggio-Répaci awards in 2021. Most recently, she was longlisted for Premio Strega for her second memoir Cassandra a Mogadiscio. Her previous novels include Beyond Babylon and Adua. She also co-edited the anthology series Africana (Feltrinelli) with Chiara Piaggio.
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Contents Foreword Igiaba Scego Translators’ Note Eilis Kierans and Sandra Waters 1 Seven Years Old 2 African Braids 3 Snakes and Dad 4 Scars on Skin 5 If You Know Your History 6 The Secret Diary 7 All the Relatives 8 The Kpelle People 9 The Initiation 10 La Lingua Parlata 11 Mussolini the Italian 12 The Diamond Princess 13 The Power of Twins 14 The First Sister 15 Rocks in Our Shoes 16 The Sound of Drums 17 The Black Body 18 Pidgin English 19 Roma Nord 20 The 29 21 The Motivator 22 The Guy from CasaPound 23 Fingerprints 24 Federico 25 I Dream of Water 26 Silent on the Surface 27 Mom Doesn’t Want Me to Go to Liberia 28 The Journey to Liberia 29 Oceanic Currents 30 Blessings 31 Italian Citizenship 32 Karima
Contents Foreword Igiaba Scego Translators’ Note Eilis Kierans and Sandra Waters 1 Seven Years Old 2 African Braids 3 Snakes and Dad 4 Scars on Skin 5 If You Know Your History 6 The Secret Diary 7 All the Relatives 8 The Kpelle People 9 The Initiation 10 La Lingua Parlata 11 Mussolini the Italian 12 The Diamond Princess 13 The Power of Twins 14 The First Sister 15 Rocks in Our Shoes 16 The Sound of Drums 17 The Black Body 18 Pidgin English 19 Roma Nord 20 The 29 21 The Motivator 22 The Guy from CasaPound 23 Fingerprints 24 Federico 25 I Dream of Water 26 Silent on the Surface 27 Mom Doesn’t Want Me to Go to Liberia 28 The Journey to Liberia 29 Oceanic Currents 30 Blessings 31 Italian Citizenship 32 Karima
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