Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature

Caterina Romeo is Associate Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, where she teaches Literary Theory, Gender Studies, and Migration Studies. She is the author of Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale (2018) and Narrative tra due sponde: Memoir di italiane d'America (2005). She has coedited Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity (2012), Postcolonial Europe (special issue of the journal Postcolonial Studies, 2015), and Intersectional Italy (special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2022).

• Introduction.- 1 Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Survey.- 2 Gender and its Intersections.- 3 Outside of the Chromatic Norm: Questions of Race, Blackness, Visibility, Italianness and Citizenship.- 4 Politics of (Re)Location: Geographies of Diaspora and New Urban Mappings.

“This essay not only draws the most complete picture of Italian postcolonial literature in the last thirty years until nowadays: it forces the reader to embrace the political issues contained in this work opting for an intersectional and postcolonial perspective. It is impossible—and not even desirable—to remain politically neutral in front of this work that highlights the hidden part of the colonial past and its lasting effects in the present.” (Anna Eberle, Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 41, 2023)