Narrare l'Albania in italiano : Dalla letteratura di immigrazione verso il colonialismo dell'immaginazione

• Main Author: Da Lio, Giulia
• Format: Others
• Language: Italian
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för franska, italienska och klassiska språk 2013
• Subjects: Vorpsi; Ibrahimi; Italy; Albania; migration literature; colonialism; female writers; writing in a second language; Italia; letteratura migrante; scrittrici migranti; seconda lingua; Italien; Albanien; migrationslitteratur; Languages and Literature; Språk och litteratur; Specific Literatures; Litteraturstudier; General Literature Studies; Litteraturvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-190439

The aim of this thesis is to show how the contemporary critical debate on migrant literature in Italy has proved to be inadequate to grasp the complexity of novels such Onela Vorpsi’s The Land where No One Ever Dies and Anilda Ibrahimi’s Rosso come una sposa (“Red as a Bride”). The main critical trends are presented, the two novels are analysed in their themes and new methods of analysis are suggested. In particular, I open for the possibility of framing these two novels within the multidisciplinary debate on the imaginative colonisation of Eastern Europe.