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.
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.
- Term:
- Summer 2008, LS 6 Week Session
- Location:
- Atwater Hall B A100(ATB A100)
- Schedule:
- 3:00pm-3:59pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Jun 30, 2008 to Aug 15, 2008)
- Type:
- Lecture
- Instructors:
- Mario Domenichelli
- Subject:
- Italian
- Department:
- Italian
- Division:
- Language School
- Requirements Fulfilled:
- Levels:
- Graduate
- Availability:
- View availability, prerequisites, and other requirements.
- Course Reference Number (CRN):
- 60475
- Subject Code:
- ITAL
- Course Number:
- 6662
- Section Identifier:
- A