Autonomy of migration: (de)territorialization, resistance and right of citizenship in migration literature

Vol.37,No.2(2016)

Vincenzo Binetti

https://doi.org/10.5817/ERB2016-2-6

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http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135890

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Abstract
Most of the novels written by migrant writers today in Italy have, in my opinion, a tendency to purposely decentralize and almost blur the visualization of a given territoriality within which their characters evolve and operate. Even if these novels are, in fact, often set in metropolitan contexts easily recognizable and identifiable by the reader, they are indeed missing an almost reassuring reference to those urban and architectural landmarks, which should instead have emblematically validated and clearly demarcated the landscapes and the mapping of the Italian cultural-historical tradition and its national identity. I wonder therefore which kind of political and literary implications may spring from this deliberate invisibility of the official landscapes and from an exclusion of the other from the urban spaces within which these foreign citizens, nomadic protagonists of migrant narratives, erratically move. Which destabilizing literary and stylistic elements define then these attempts to (re)read the impermeable uniformity of the national territory through a problematic and conflictual shifting of the interpretative point of view of those same public spaces? And, even more, which forms of political resistance define this intentionality, this desire to displace a certain predictability of the reader's orizzonte d'attesa, a reader who would have preferred instead to recognize and validate, precisely within those spaces, his/her own sense of identitarian belonging and citizenship?

Keywords:
Amara Lakhous; migration; literature; landscape; urban space; autonomy; resistance; exclusion; citizenship

Pages:
69–79
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