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ITAL6662A-L08

Intro Ital Colonial & Post Lit

Introduction to Italian Colonial and Post-colonial Literature

On the background of the hundred years of the Italian colonial and postcolonial experience in Africa, the course will focus on the period between 1935 (the year of the Italian war in Ethiopia) and the periods of the “Amministrazione fiduciaria” and of the Italian Cooperation in Somalia, through the analysis of the colonial and postcolonial novels of Bacchelli, Flaiano, Tobino, Emanuelli, dell’Oro, Domenichelli.

Required Text: Riccardo Bacchelli, Mal d’Africa (1934), Milano, Mondadori; Milano, Rizzoli (“BUR”). Ennio Flaiano, Tempo di uccidere (1947), Milano, Rizzoli (“BUR”). Mario Tobino, Il deserto della Libia (1952), Torino, Einaudi; Milano, Mondadori. Enrico Emanuelli, Settimana nera (1966), Ancona, Pequod, 2007. Erminia dell’Oro, Asmara Addio, Roma, Baldini e Castodi (“I Nani”), 1988. Mario Domenichelli, Lugemalé, Firenze, Pagliai, 2005.

Students will be required to read Flaiano’s Tempo di uccidere and two more novels of their choice from the reading list.

Critical Bibliography:Giovanna Tomasello, L’Africa tra mito e realtà/, Sellerio, Palermo, 2004.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60475
Subject Code:
ITAL
Course Number:
6662
Section Identifier:
A

Course

ITAL 6662

All Sections in Summer 2008, LS 6 Week Session

Summer 2008, LS 6 Week Session

ITAL6662A-L08 Lecture (Domenichelli)