Abstract
In the early 1990s, when immigration was becoming a structural phenomenon in Italy, the production of foreign-born writers was making its entry into the national publishing market. New issues, such as Italy's recent social transformations, the revision of the literary canon, the colonial past and the postcolonial condition, were thus entering fiction and critical debate.
Thanks to the reflections of three different generations of scholars and scholars, this volume not only provides an assessment of this production and its legacies, but aims to understand how immigration has more broadly affected the Italian cultural landscape. The ten contributions collected here broaden the range of approaches through which to analyze the relationship between writing and migration (gender studies, the posthuman, publishing strategies), observe new forms of artistic collaboration between Italians and "new Italians", and explore languages contiguous and interrelated to literary narratives: music, theater, visual arts, comics, and video games.
Without eliding the conflicting aspects of today's multicultural Italy, the book highlights the capacity of artistic practices to imagine new ways of existence and coexistence.