Autore
Marfè, Luigi

Titolo
Scritture "extraterritoriali". Migrazione, letteratura, identità
Periodico
In verbis
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 65 - Pagina finale: 74

What kind of national belonging is expressed by the "displaced" writers ofa globalized world? What does a word like "homeland" mean in the worksof migrant, exiled and refugee authors? Contemporary literature, accordingto George Steiner, is constitutively extraterritorial, since it challengesthe traditional equivalence between geographic, linguistic and culturalboundaries. The paper investigates the new idea of nation which this "extraterritorial"writing puts forward: an idea of nation which is not essentialist,assertive and fixed in time and space, but rather narrative, questioning,protean. Displaced writing shapes what Salman Rushdie called the new"imaginary homelands" of migrancy: "imaginary homelands" that flourishin an ideal in-between, where their authors could renegotiate and reinventthe boundaries of identity and otherness.



SICI: 2279-8978(2013)1<65:S"MLI>2.0.ZU;2-X
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