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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.
Contents
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
