Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian by Medugno, Marco
Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian by Medugno, Marco

Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework...
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Author: Marco Medugno
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Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian by Medugno, Marco

Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian

$453.00
Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian by Medugno, Marco

Literature of the Somali Diaspora: Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian

$453.00
Author: Marco Medugno
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework for multilingual and transnational analysis of Somali literature.

Building on the latest scholarship about multilingual contexts, diaspora studies and the rapidly expanding field of Italian postcolonial studies, Marco Medugno examines Somali diasporic literature with a comparative perspective. Considering works written in English and Italian, he argues that Somali diasporic authors share similar themes and aesthetics, thus creating an interliterary community within the diaspora space.

By using multilingualism as a starting point, Medugno provides significant insights into how Somali national and individual identities are constructed in diasporic, global contexts through geography, style, form, language and the re-writing of national histories emerging out of colonization and independence. Analysing acclaimed Somali novels such as Nuruddin Farah's Links and Crossbones, Igiaba Scego's Adua and Cristina Ali Farah's Little Mother, he questions any definition of 'local' as 'provincial', instead considering it a site for interrogating global concerns.

Literature of the Somali Diaspora is organized around three themes: spatiality, language and resistance help to contextualize authors, forced by the decades-long Somali Civil War, to write outside Somalia and in different languages - including Somali, Italian, English, German, Dutch and Arabic - within global literary circuits. Their work thus creates a literature not confined within national borders but an interliterary global community, a transnational and multilingual space in which they share world aesthetic ideologies, challenge and engage with literary traditions in different languages and show an interplay between diverse cultures.

Author: Marco Medugno
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 08/08/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9798765107485

About the Author
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.
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