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Transnational Minor Literature: Cristina Ali Farah's Somali Italian Stories
2019
The essay investigates writer Cristina Ali Farah's narratives and her use of language, by referring to the paradigm of transnational studies, applying the notion of minor literature to women's diasporic literature and in particular to Ali Farah's novels and short stories.
Una nazione di narrazioni
2003
The Preface offers a historical overview of Somalia, a former English and Italian colony, of the years of Mogadishu's Amministrazione Fiduciaria, independence, Syad Barre's regime and the ensuing civil war producing an exodus of people living abroad, in diaspora. It also covers the biography of the dean of Somali letters Nuruddin Farah, eminent Anglophone writer and intellectual, obliged to live in exile since the times of Syad Barre's dictatorship.
Rifugiati: Voci della diaspora somala
2003
Acclaimed Somali writer Nuruddin Farah's non-fiction text is based upon a number of interviews to Somali refugees in four European nations historically close to his homeland - Italy, England, Sweden, Switzerland. Their voices intertwine, framed by that of the exile writer, providing a reconstruction of Somalia as a postcolonial nation first and a civil-war ridden failed state later.