Marco Medugno

Literature of the Somali Diaspora

Space, Language and Resistance in Somali Novels in English and Italian. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 248 Seiten

EAN 9798765107492

Veröffentlicht 19. Februar 2026

Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic

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Beschreibung

"Building on the recent, emerging body of scholarship on world literature in multilingual contexts and the rapidly expanding field of Italian postcolonial studies, this book is the first to examine Somali literature from the diaspora with a global perspective. It examines works written in English and Italian by Somali authors, arguing that Somali literature's diasporic and multilingual dimensions make it a model for conceptualizing world literature today. Books discussed include acclaimed novels such as Nuruddin Farah's Links and Crossbones, Igiaba Scego's Adua and Cristina Ali Farah's Little Mother"--

Portrait

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.