Silvia Camilotti

Letteratura della migrazione in lingua italiana. Questioni teoriche e pratiche decolonizzanti

Migration Literature in Italian Language. Theoretical Issues and Decolonizing Practices - The essay aims to give some insights into the topic of migration literature in Italian language, seen as a potential means of acknowledgement and social integration for migrant authors and as a decolonizing occasion for Italian readers. I’m going to question the issue of definition, which at the beginning focused on the concept of italophone literature and that afterward has become more complex. It’s hard to reduce this literary phenomenon to strict etiquettes since it is constantly evolving. Moreover, limiting the literary works of first and second generation migrants in Italy to a rigid field runs the risk to betray the ambitions and the wishes of many authors, which instead refuse categories. In the first part of the article, starting from the thesis that these works mirror the social transformations which are going on, I’ll seek to contextualize the phenomenon and stress some central aspects; in the second part I will show how artistic works not only reflect changes but also deconstruct and answer back to ethnic and Euro-centric visions, starting a decolonizing process into the readers. keywords Migrant writers in Italy (parola unica); Italophone literature (parola unica); Decolonization Italy Literature (parola unica)

The Place of Language in (Re)constructing Identity: The Case of ‘Fortunate Immigrants’ to/from Italy

Based on an analysis of interviews (eighteen in total) conducted in Italy and Norway, this article explores how identity is (re)constructed in a new host society. It especially focuses on how the informants (‘fortunate immigrants’) define their national belonging. We discuss what status their language has for them, and whether language can be considered a symbol of that belonging. It is argued that the sociocultural context and the relationship between participants in social interaction (such as an interview) affect the responses. The divergence that emerged from the responses can be interpreted as emphasizing the differences between a multilingual and a monolingual society

Una e plurima: riflessioni intorno alle nuove espressioni delle donne nella letteratura italiana

Tale lavoro di ricerca ha indagato l’opera di sette scrittrici immigrate in Italia o nate da genitori immigrati che hanno composto in lingua italiana. Esse sono: Christiana de Caldas Brito, Cristina Ubax Ali Farah, Gabriella Kuruvilla, Ingy Mubiayi, Ornela Vorpsi, Laila Wadia, Jarmila Ockayova. La tesi consta di una premessa, un primo capitolo in cui sono riportate le interviste fatte alle scrittrici, un secondo capitolo di analisi dei loro testi, un terzo di riflessioni di teoria letteraria ed un quarto conclusivo. In appendice sono riportate integralmente le interviste.