دانلود کتاب We, The Europeans: Italian Essays on Postcolonialism (Thinking European Worlds)

We, the Europeans: Italian Essays on Postcolonialism collects the best of the articles, lectures, and major essays written by Armando Gnisci, who is regarded as one of the premier scholars of comparative literature in Europe today. These essays, translated and edited for this volume, are the first appearance in English by this prolific scholar. Although many scholars of contemporary Italian literature are familiar with Gnisci’s voluminous output, much of it is not easily available, not translated, or somewhat dated. Gnisci’s writings span a wide range of interrelated concerns, exploring questions of migration, imperialism, the nature of Europe (and of Rome), and the concept of the Mediterranean, and call attention to many of the most pressing and troubling issues currently facing Italian society. With historical erudition and moral conscience, Gnisci investigates how Italy is responding to the burden of its colonial past. Gnisci follows Sartre and Fanon in extolling a new way of seeing globally through the lens of world literature. Eschewing traditional notions of the Italian literary canon that he considers fundamentally flawed, Gnisci argues for the importance of a more expansive notion of literature, one that emphasizes cultural shifts, exchanges, insecurities, and linguistic polyphony. An introduction by the translator, as well as extensive footnotes, provide the reader with an introduction to a fully engaged, and decidedly Italian, perspective on Postcolonial themes.