This essay draws on the first (of two) edited volumes of ISSA dedicated to “Postcolonialismi Italiani ieri e oggi appunti (sudafricani) per una (ri)concettualizzazione ‘rizomatica’ dei postcolonial Italian studies” (Virga, Zuccala 2018) and on some of the new concepts introduced therein. The essay tackles in a more thorough fashion and from a broader perspective some of the methodological and terminological issues raised – albeit in a necessarily cursory manner (and in Italian) – in Virga and Zuccala 2018. The essay starts by geographically positioning writers in the context of global academia and claiming an epistemological consequence of their geographical position. It then gives an overview of the field of postcolonial Italian studies in order to explain how the concept of rhizome, when applied meta-critically to the whole field, might provide a useful starting point for a paradigmatic reconceptualization of postcolonial Italian studies.
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Titolo del capitolo
Postcolonial Italian Studies: Rhizomatic Notes from the South
Autori
Anita Virga, Brian Zuccala
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4.12
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons
Sottotitolo del libro
Offerings for Annamaria Pagliaro
Curatori
Samuele Grassi, Brian Zuccala
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-597-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-597-4
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-598-1
Collana
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
e-ISSN della collana
2420-8361