Diaspore

Quaderni di ricerca


Diaspore Quaderni di ricerca

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Aims & Scope
The series Diaspore. Quaderni di ricerca originates from the desire to investigate the human being’s diasporic dimension, in its various forms. In the mechanisms implemented by the globalisation’s processes, which tend to assimilate the diversity and to blend the inevitable conflicts arising from the difference, the diasporic and migratory phenomenon can paradoxically be the original element to safeguard an individual and a culture in a new territory, providing a peculiar reflection area in which the conservation of that starting culture, but also the interstitial territories and the hybridism phenomena between this and the target culture can be preserved. Research laboratories of these realities will be mainly the cultural, literary, and artistic productions, generated in particular historical contexts, in territories including Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Americas, regions where the culturally-composite identities, on heterogeneous bases, reveal the vitality of moving cultures.

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  • Racconti di viaggio
  • Scritture e paesaggi tra mondi lontani
  • Alide Cagidemetrio, Ricciarda Ricorda
  • Dec. 15, 2025
  • Exploring travel literature – whether short stories, diaries, chronicles, letters, or otherwise – is always challenging due to the multifaceted nature, richness, and diversity this writing style encompasses. The desire for adventure, the thirst for discovery and knowledge, the pain of exile, the search for a dreamlike landscape or escape from suffering are just some of the many motivations that have driven humankind to travel. And they continue to do so. In the Western world, in fact, from the Odyssey onward, the theme of travel has been the central theme for writers’ adventures. The journey can be undertaken in space or time, it can be real or imaginary, considering existence as an individual’s passage on earth, on a long and arduous journey toward self-discovery. It’s also important to remember that the journey, in order to exist, requires storytelling: without it, no trace would remain. Its existence, in fact, is given by the possibility of being narrated, written, and read, since any journey is significant not so much in relation to its realization, but thanks to the text that emerges from it. The essays in this volume of Diasporas ‘travel’ from Japan to Chile, passing through China, Russia, Iraq, Italy, Spain, Germany, England, Bolivia, Mexico... These texts, once again, demonstrate how travel literature (the narrative) offers potential yet to be discovered. Indeed, travel, beyond the confrontation with others, simultaneously destabilizes and enriches the identity of each of us.

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  • Italy/Argentina
  • Susanna Regazzoni, Adriana Mancini
  • Nov. 3, 2022
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  • Romance and Shoah
  • Alessandro Cinquegrani, Francesca Pangallo, Federico Rigamonti
  • April 2, 2021
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  • Writing about Islam
  • Simone Brioni, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
  • April 22, 2020
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  • Women on the Run
  • Monica Giachino, Adriana Mancini
  • Nov. 6, 2018
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  • Reading the Distance
  • Silvia Camilotti, Ilaria Crotti, Ricciarda Ricorda
  • Dec. 1, 2015
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  • Migrant Writings
  • Margherita Cannavacciuolo, Emilia Perassi, Susanna Regazzoni
  • Dec. 31, 2014