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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.

Cristina Ali Farah. Nuruddin Farah. Translingual transnationalism: the Somali case. The Somali diaspora. Minor transnationalism.
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Pearls in Motion

2011

RefugeesPostmodernismWomen in the diasporaSomali diasporaTransnational literature
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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.

Yesterday TomorrowBritish SomalilandSomali historyNuruddin FarahExile literatureItalian SomaliaSomali diaspora.
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