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Bridge over Troubled Water: Italy and the Black Mediterranean

2022

Since ancient times, Italy has served as a bridge between Africa and Europe, facilitating exchanges of goods, crops, legends, human beings, and deities. In recent decades, this role has come back to everyone’s attention because of the flows that have turned the Mediterranean into one of the main crossroads on the global migratory chessboard. Several young Africans have embarked the Mediterranean Passage. Some have arrived to the opposite shore, whereas some have not. The survivors have reshaped the history of the African Diaspora. The history of the Black Mediterranean resonates with that of the Black Atlantic. Moreover, the considerable presence of an African Italian community inevitably l…

imagined communitieAfrica-Europe relationthe African Diasporanational identitydigital arts.The Black MediterraneanmigrationSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura IngleseglobalizationThe Black Atlantic
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'Sinking Hopeful Roots into Difficult Soil': Caryl Phillips' Crossing the River.

1998

This article proposes a reading of Caryl Phillips Booker-shortlisted novel Crossing the River as an exemplary text of the African Diaspora.

Caryl Phillips. Crossing the River. The African Diaspora. The slave-trade. Caribbean literature. Black British literature. Modern history. The Black Atlantic. Postmodernism.Settore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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