Speakers: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (Writer) and Simone Brioni (Stony Brook)
Respondent: Graziella Parati (Dartmouth College)
Through its dialogic form, this paper presents key issues in Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s career as representative of her cohort of Somali-Italian authors’ struggles to be heard and read, including the processes of translation and self-translation in Lontano da Mogadiscio and Nuvole sull’Equatore, the challenges surrounding publication both at home and abroad, and the conflict created by her works’ assertion of an alternative view of history that disrupts settled Italian cultural memory.
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This event is part of the Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium series and is sponsored by The Department of Italian and The European Institute.
