Il Tolomeo first saw the light of day in 1995, thanks to the work of a group of postcolonial scholars at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles, reviews, interviews, and previously unpublished original contributions in the fields of francophone, anglophone and lusophone literatures. Il Tolomeo investigates the postcolonial literary phenomenon in all its manifestations, but is particularly interested in contributions which take a comparative, interdisciplinary approach: dialogues between literature and the arts, investigations of hybrid forms such as comic strips and cinema, research which links literary studies with the social sciences, or innovative approaches such as digital and environmental humanities. Throughout its history, Il Tolomeo has been an important point of reference for postcolonial studies in Italy, hosting original writings and interviews with major voices in the anglophone and francophone world (Derek Walcott, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Rita El Khayat, Anthony Phelps, Anita Desai, Christine De Luca, Antonine Maillet, Roland Paret, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and many others). In its new digital open access version, its aim is to continue to reflect the destinies of a burgeoning and extraordinarily innovative disciplinary field, and to offer a space for dialogue between postcolonial writers and scholars. Issues of Il Tolomeo which predate 2016 can be accessed via PHAIDRA (Permanent Hosting, Archiving and Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets), at the following webpage: https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/detail/o:458890.
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Il Tolomeo accepts submissions of the following kinds:
- essays 35,000-40,000 characters (spaces and bibliography included) – exceptions may be allowed at the Scientific Direction’s discretion in exceptional circumstances;
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The deadlines are stated in the “Call for papers” section. Il Tolomeo is published once a year.
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Call for papers 2026 - Versione italiana
Razza, frontiere e migrazione attraverso l’Atlantico postcoloniale
Numero monografico a cura di William Boelhower, Silvia Boraso, Lucio De Capitani e Alice Girotto
Il Tolomeo (rivista open access, peer-reviewed) invita tutti gli studiosi interessati a inviare i loro contributi per il prossimo numero del 2026 (nr. 28). Il numero sarà dedicato al tema della razza e dell’immigrazione attraverso e intorno l’Atlantico postcoloniale.
A partire dai primi anni Novanta, gli studi transatlantici si sono progressivamente affermati come un importante campo di ricerca volto a riconcettualizzare l’Atlantico come uno spazio geografico fluido di circolazione, traduzione, creolizzazione, trasferimenti culturali e relazioni sociali di genere, plasmato dal commercio degli schiavi, dalla colonizzazione e da innumerevoli migrazioni. A partire dal lavoro pionieristico di Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (1993), questo campo interdisciplinare ha affrontato criticamente le dinamiche diasporiche, gli scambi culturali e le identità razzializzate che hanno reso il mondo atlantico moderno ciò che è oggi. In quanto paradigma trasversale, gli studi letterari transatlantici indagano i modi in cui le dimensioni cisatlantica, transatlantica e circumatlantica si intersecano, attingendo spesso a spunti provenienti da altre aree di ricerca, come le scienze sociali, gli studi ambientali, la traduttologia e gli studi sulla migrazione.
Questo paradigma ha inoltre promosso un approccio ecologico, invitandoci a esplorare la porosità dei tradizionali quadri nazionali e linguistici. L’Atlantico emerge così come un laboratorio vitale per riflettere sul rapporto tra memoria, storia, lingua, agency e identità in contesti postcoloniali e neocoloniali, e per analizzare come le letterature e le società si adattino a queste eredità complesse e, in definitiva, senza frontiere.
Nel mondo anglofono, gli studi transatlantici si sono sviluppati principalmente all’interno di una tradizione interdisciplinare che integra storia, letteratura e studi culturali (Boelhower 2007, 2009, 2019; Manning e Taylor 2007; Tavor Bannet e Manning 2011). Le ricerche recenti hanno posto razza, migrazione e frontiere al centro della loro riflessione (Campbell 2022; Kenney, Salenius e Smith 2016; Beidler e Taylor 2005), trattando l’Atlantico come uno spazio in cui le costruzioni razziali dell’identità e i processi migratori sono punti critici reciprocamente costitutivi. Le traiettorie migratorie e i loro processi di razzializzazione si sviluppano lungo un ampio continuum geostorico e collegano la tratta transatlantica degli schiavi alle odierne formazioni diasporiche nel circum-Caraibico e nei Paesi ricchi del Nord globale.
Nel mondo francofono, gli specialisti hanno sviluppato una linea di ricerca complementare, incentrata sulla memoria della schiavitù, la migrazione, la creolizzazione e le gerarchie razziali ereditate dal colonialismo (Miller 2008; Marschall 2009; Moura e Clavaron 2012; Moura e Porra 2015). Questi studi mettono in primo piano come le identità creole siano modellate attraverso mobilità forzate e volontarie attraverso l’Atlantico (Schnakenbourg 2021), mentre le memorie della schiavitù e della dominazione neocoloniale continuano a strutturare le forme contemporanee di appartenenza, esclusione e produzione culturale.
Una simile riorientazione caratterizza le ricerche tra gli studiosi di lingua portoghese, che hanno riformulato gli approcci storici e antropologici iniziali (Vale de Almeida 2002; da Costa e Silva 2003) nella prospettiva delle circolazioni Sud-Sud e della rilettura delle storie postcoloniali. Roberto Vecchi (2008, 2016) ha contribuito a ridefinire gli studi postcoloniali attraverso il concetto di “Atlantico del Sud” e l’articolazione interna tra periferie imperiali che esso implica. Più recentemente, il dossier tematico della rivista Via Atlântica, curato da Emerson da Cruz Inácio, Luca Fazzini e Roberto Francavilla (2022), si è concentrato sulle continuità con il passato coloniale, sulle questioni di autoctonia e sulle pratiche di sopravvivenza espresse tramite estetiche, teorie e discorsi letterari e artistici anti-egemonici.
Questo numero monografico de Il Tolomeo si propone di analizzare l’Atlantico e le tematiche sopra menzionate attraverso un approccio postcoloniale multiscalare. Si tratterà, nello specifico, di mettere in dialogo prospettive anglofone, francofone e lusofone per comprendere come razza, migrazione e frontiere continuino a plasmare il mondo atlantico in una varietà di contesti postcoloniali. La dimensione comparativa permette infatti di cogliere i modi in cui le identità razzializzate, i movimenti migratori e i modelli di spostamento vengono costruiti, contestati e trasformati in diverse società e spazi culturali.
Invitiamo pertanto i contributori e le contributrici a proporre articoli che indagano il modo in cui le società atlantiche negoziano e rappresentano razza e migrazione attraverso forme letterarie, artistiche, cinematografiche o memoriali mediante le quali tali dinamiche vengono elaborate.
Possibili ambiti d’indagine includono:
La rivista indaga il fenomeno letterario postcoloniale in tutte le sue forme, ma è particolarmente interessata a contributi che utilizzino approcci comparativi e interdisciplinari:
Sono benvenuti anche studi con un approccio interdisciplinare e comparativo e/o che collocano le opere nei rispettivi contesti letterari e culturali.
Il Tolomeo accetta contributi nelle seguenti categorie:
Si prega chiunque sia interessato a proporre un contributo di inviare un abstract (di massimo 1000 caratteri, spazi inclusi) entro il 09/02/2026 tramite il link in calce. Si prega di allegare, oltre all’abstract, una nota bio-bibliografica (in inglese, di massimo 1000 caratteri, spazi inclusi) e 5 keywords (in inglese, non necessario per recensioni, inediti e interviste).
Si prega anche di indicare il tipo di contributo (articolo, recensione, inedito, intervista).
La scadenza successiva, per l’invio dei contributi completi, è il 18/05/2026.
I contributi dovranno essere redatti, in un file .docx, secondo le norme redazionali e bibliografiche della rivista, consultabili sulla pagina web del Tolomeo. Si accettano contributi in inglese, francese, portoghese e italiano, purché ci sia coerenza tra lingua e contenuto (la Direzione/Redazione si riserva il diritto di concedere eventuali deroghe di fronte a esigenze specifiche e motivate). Per ulteriori informazioni scrivere a tolomeo.redazione@unive.it o consultare il sito della rivista: Il Tolomeo.
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Call for papers 2026 - English version
Race, Borders, and Migration across the Postcolonial Atlantic
Special issue directed by William Boelhower, Silvia Boraso, Lucio De Capitani, and Alice Girotto
The editors of Il Tolomeo invite submissions for the upcoming 2026 issue (no. 28) dedicated to the themes of race and migration across and around the postcolonial Atlantic.
Since the early 1990s, transatlantic studies have progressively established themselves as a major scholarly field for reconceptualizing the Atlantic as a fluid geographical space of circulation, translation, creolization, cultural transfers, and gendered social relations shaped by the slave trade, colonization, and countless migrations. Starting with Paul Gilroy’s pioneering work The Black Atlantic (1993), this interdisciplinary field has critically tackled diasporic dynamics, cultural exchanges, and racialized identities that have made the modern Atlantic world what it is today. As a cross-disciplinary paradigm, transatlantic literary studies invest in the ways cisatlantic, transatlantic, and circumatlantic scales intersect, often drawing on insights from other research areas such as the social sciences, environmental studies, translation studies, and migration studies.
This paradigm has also fostered an ecological approach, inviting us to investigate the porousness of traditional national and linguistic frameworks. The Atlantic thus emerges as a vital laboratory for thinking about the relationship between memory, history, language, agency, and identity in postcolonial and neocolonial contexts, and for analyzing how literatures and societies adapt to these ultimately borderless and vexed heritages.
In the Anglophone world, transatlantic studies have developed primarily within an interdisciplinary tradition integrating history, literature, and cultural studies (Boelhower 2007, 2009, 2019; Manning and Taylor 2007; Tavor Bannet and Manning 2011). Recent scholarship has placed race, migration, and borders at the centre of its agenda (Campbell 2022; Kenney, Salenius and Smith 2016; Beidler and Taylor 2005), treating the Atlantic as a space in which racial constructions of identity and migratory processes are mutually constitutive flashpoints. Migratory trajectories and their accompanying processes of racialization unfold across a long geohistorical continuum and link the transatlantic slave trade to contemporary diasporic formations in the circum-Caribbean and the rich nations of the Global North.
Scholarship in the Francophone world has developed a complementary line of inquiry centred on the memory of slavery, migration, hybridity, and the racial hierarchies inherited from colonialism (Miller 2008; Marschall 2009; Moura and Clavaron 2012; Moura and Porra 2015). These studies foreground how creole identities are shaped through forced and voluntary mobilities across the Atlantic (Schnakenbourg 2021), while memories of slavery and neocolonial domination continue to structure contemporary forms of belonging, exclusion, and cultural production.
A similar reorientation characterizes research among Portuguese-speaking scholars, who have reframed early historical and anthropological approaches (Vale de Almeida 2002; da Costa and Silva 2003) within the perspective of South-South circulations and the re-examination of postcolonial histories. Roberto Vecchi (2008, 2016) has helped to redefine postcolonial scholarship through the concept of the “South Atlantic” and the internal articulation between imperial peripheries that it implies. More recently, the thematic dossier of the journal Via Atlântica, edited by Emerson da Cruz Inácio, Luca Fazzini, and Roberto Francavilla (2022), has focused on continuities with the colonial past, issues of indigeneity and survival practices expressed through anti-hegemonic aesthetics, theories, and literary and artistic discourses.
This special monographic issue of Il Tolomeo aims to analyze the Atlantic themes mentioned above through a multiscalar postcolonial approach. It seeks to bring together Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone perspectives to understand how race, migration, and borders continue to shape the Atlantic world in a variety of postcolonial contexts. The comparative dimension allows us to examine how racialized identities, migratory movements, and patterns of displacement are constructed, contested, and transformed across different societies and cultural spaces. We invite submissions that explore how Atlantic societies negotiate and represent race and migration through literary, artistic, filmic, or memorial forms through which these dynamics are elaborated.
Possible areas of investigation include:
Studies with an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, and/or those situating works within their literary and cultural contexts, are also welcome.
Il Tolomeo accepts contributions in the following categories:
Please submit an abstract (maximum 1000 characters, including spaces) by 09/02/2026 via the link below. Please attach, in addition to the abstract, a bio-bibliographical note (in English, maximum 1,000 characters, spaces included) and 5 key words (in English; not necessary for reviews, unpublished works and interviews).
Please also indicate the type of contribution (article, review, unpublished work, interview).
The deadline for submitting complete contributions is 18/05/2026.
Contributions must be written (in a .docx format) according to the journal’s editorial and bibliographical norms, which can be found on the journal’s web page. Contributions are accepted in English, French, Portuguese and Italian, as long as there is coherence between language and content (the editors reserve the right to grant exceptions in the case of specific and justified needs). For further information write to tolomeo.redazione@unive.it or consult the journal’s website: Il Tolomeo.
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Call for papers 2026 - Version française
Race, frontières et migration dans l’Atlantique postcolonial
Numéro spécial dirigé par William Boelhower, Silvia Boraso, Lucio De Capitani et Alice Girotto
La revue Il Tolomeo invite tou.t.e.s les chercheur.e.s intéressé.e.s à soumettre leurs contributions pour le prochain numéro de 2026 (no 28). Le numéro sera consacré aux thèmes de la race et de la migration à travers et autour de l’Atlantique postcolonial.
Depuis le début des années 1990, les études transatlantiques se sont progressivement imposées comme un champ de recherche majeur permettant de reconceptualiser l’Atlantique comme un espace géographique fluide de circulation, de traduction, de créolisation, de transferts culturels et de relations sociales genrées façonnées par la traite négrière, la colonisation et d’innombrables migrations. À partir de l’ouvrage pionnier de Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (1993), ce champ interdisciplinaire a examiné de manière critique les dynamiques diasporiques, les échanges culturels et les identités racialisées qui ont façonné le monde atlantique moderne tel qu’il est aujourd’hui. En tant que paradigme transdisciplinaire, les études littéraires transatlantiques s’intéressent aux façons dont les échelles cisatlantiques, transatlantiques et circumatlantiques s’entrecroisent, s’appuyant souvent sur les apports d’autres domaines de recherche tels que les sciences sociales, les études environnementales, les études de traduction et les études migratoires.
Ce paradigme a également favorisé une approche écologique, nous invitant à interroger la porosité des cadres nationaux et linguistiques traditionnels. L’Atlantique apparaît ainsi comme un laboratoire essentiel pour réfléchir aux relations entre mémoire, histoire, langue, agentivité et identité dans des contextes postcoloniaux et néocoloniaux, ainsi que pour analyser la manière dont les littératures et les sociétés s’adaptent à ces héritages complexes et, en définitive, sans frontières.
Dans le monde anglophone, les études transatlantiques se sont principalement développées au sein d’une tradition interdisciplinaire intégrant l’histoire, la littérature et les études culturelles (Boelhower 2007, 2009, 2019 ; Manning et Andrew Taylor 2007 ; Tavor Bannet et Manning 2011). Les travaux récents ont placé la race, la migration et les frontières au cœur de leur programme de recherche (Campbell 2022 ; Kenney, Salenius et Smith 2016 ; Beidler et Tailor 2005), envisageant l’Atlantique comme un espace où les constructions raciales de l’identité et les processus migratoires constituent des points de tension mutuellement constitutifs. Les trajectoires migratoires et leurs processus de racialisation associés se déploient sur un long continuum géohistorique et relient la traite transatlantique des esclaves aux formations diasporiques contemporaines du circumcaribéen et des pays riches du Nord global.
Dans le monde francophone, la recherche a développé une ligne d’enquête complémentaire centrée autour de la mémoire de l’esclavage, la migration, l’hybridité et les hiérarchies raciales héritées du colonialisme (Miller 2008 ; Marschall 2009 ; Moura et Clavaron 2012 ; Moura et Porra 2015). Ces études mettent en lumière la manière dont les identités créoles se façonnent à travers des mobilités forcées et volontaires à travers l’Atlantique (Schnakenbourg 2021), tandis que les mémoires de l’esclavage et de la domination néocoloniale continuent de structurer les formes contemporaines d’appartenance, d’exclusion et de production culturelle.
Une réorientation similaire caractérise les recherches menées par les spécialistes lusophones, qui ont reformulé les approches historiques et anthropologiques initiales (Vale de Almeida 2002 ; da Costa et Silva 2003) dans une perspective de circulations Sud-Sud et de réexamen des histoires postcoloniales. Roberto Vecchi (2008, 2016) a contribué à redéfinir les études postcoloniales grâce au concept d’« Atlantique du Sud » et à l’articulation interne entre périphéries impériales qu’il implique. Plus récemment, le dossier thématique de la revue Via Atlântica, dirigée par Emerson da Cruz Inácio, Luca Fazzini et Roberto Francavilla (2022), s’est concentré sur les continuités avec le passé colonial, les enjeux d’indigénéité et les pratiques de survie exprimées à travers des esthétiques, des théories et des discours littéraires et artistiques anti-hégémoniques.
Ce numéro monographique de Il Tolomeo vise à analyser l’Atlantique à travers une approche postcoloniale multiscalaire. Il s’agira, plus précisément, de mettre en dialogue des perspectives anglophones, francophones et lusophones afin de comprendre comment la race, la migration et les frontières continuent de façonner le monde atlantique dans une variété de contextes postcoloniaux. La dimension comparative permet de saisir les manières dont les identités racialisées, les mouvements migratoires et les formes de déplacement sont construits, contestés et transformés au sein de différentes sociétés et espaces culturels. Nous invitons ainsi les contributeurs et contributrices à proposer des articles qui explorent la manière dont les sociétés atlantiques négocient et représentent la race et la migration, à travers des formes littéraires, artistiques, filmiques ou mémorielles par lesquelles ces dynamiques sont élaborées.
Thèmes et domaines d’investigation pouvant être envisagés :
Les études adoptant une approche interdisciplinaire et comparative, et/ou situant les œuvres dans leurs contextes littéraires et culturels, sont également les bienvenues.
Il Tolomeo accepte plusieurs types de contributions :
Pour soumettre une contribution, merci d’envoyer un résumé (1000 caractères maximum, espaces compris) d’ici le 09/02/2026 via le lien indiqué ci-dessous. Veuillez joindre, en plus du résumé, une note bio-bibliographique (en anglais, 1000 caractères maximum, espaces compris) et 5 mots-clés (en anglaise - non nécessaires pour les comptes rendus, les travaux non publiés et les interviews).
Veuillez également indiquer le type de contribution (article, revue, inédit, interview).
La prochaine date limite pour le dépôt des contributions définitives est fixée au 18/05/2026.
Les contributions doivent être rédigées, dans un fichier .docx, selon les normes éditoriales et bibliographiques de la revue, qui peuvent être consultées sur la page web de la revue. Nous acceptons les contributions en anglais, français, portugais et italien à condition que la langue et le contenu soient liés (la Direction/Rédaction se réserve le droit d’accorder d’éventuelles dispenses en cas de demandes spécifiques et justifiées). Pour de plus amples informations, vous pouvez nous écrire à l’adresse mail tolomeo.redazione@unive.it ou consulter le site de la revue: Il Tolomeo.
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Call for papers 2026 - Versão em português
Raça, fronteiras e migração através do Atlântico pós-colonial
Edição monográfica editada por William Boelhower, Silvia Boraso e Lucio De Capitani
A partir do início dos anos 90, os estudos transatlânticos têm-se afirmado progressivamente como um importante campo de investigação que visa reconceitualizar o Atlântico como um espaço geográfico fluido de circulação, tradução, crioulização, transferências culturais e relações sociais de género, moldado pelo comércio de escravos, pela colonização e por inúmeras migrações. A partir do trabalho pioneiro de Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (1993), este campo interdisciplinar abordou criticamente as dinâmicas diaspóricas, as trocas culturais e as identidades racializadas que tornaram o mundo atlântico moderno o que é hoje. Como paradigma transversal, os estudos literários transatlânticos investigam as formas como as dimensões cisatlântica, transatlântica e circum-atlântica se cruzam, recorrendo frequentemente a ideias provenientes de outras áreas de investigação, como as ciências sociais, os estudos ambientais, a tradutologia e os estudos sobre migração.
Este paradigma também promoveu uma abordagem ecológica, convidando-nos a explorar a porosidade dos quadros nacionais e linguísticos tradicionais. O Atlântico surge assim como um laboratório vital para refletir sobre a relação entre memória, história, língua, agência e identidade em contextos pós-coloniais e neocoloniais, e para analisar como as literaturas e as sociedades se adaptam a essas heranças complexas e, em última análise, sem fronteiras.
No mundo anglófono, os estudos transatlânticos desenvolveram-se principalmente dentro de uma tradição interdisciplinar que integra história, literatura e estudos culturais (Boelhower 2007, 2009, 2019; Manning e Taylor 2007; Tavor Bannet e Manning 2011). Investigações recentes colocaram raça, migração e fronteiras no centro da sua reflexão (Campbell 2022; Kenney, Salenius e Smith 2016; Beidler e Taylor 2005), tratando o Atlântico como um espaço em que as construções raciais da identidade e os processos migratórios são pontos críticos reciprocamente constitutivos. As trajetórias migratórias e os seus processos de racialização desenvolvem-se ao longo de um amplo continuum geo-histórico e ligam o tráfico transatlântico de escravos às atuais formações diaspóricas na região das Caraíbas e nos Países ricos do Norte global.
No mundo francófono, especialistas desenvolveram uma linha de investigação complementar, centrada na memória da escravatura, migração, crioulização e hierarquias raciais herdadas do colonialismo (Miller 2008; Marschall 2009; Moura e Clavaron 2012; Moura e Porra 2015). Estes estudos destacam como as identidades crioulas são moldadas por mobilidades forçadas e voluntárias através do Atlântico (Schnakenbourg 2021), enquanto as memórias da escravatura e da dominação neocolonial continuam a estruturar as formas contemporâneas de pertença, exclusão e produção cultural.
Uma reorientação semelhante caracteriza as pesquisas entre os estudiosos da língua portuguesa, que reformularam as abordagens históricas e antropológicas iniciais (Vale de Almeida 2002; da Costa e Silva 2003) na perspectiva das circulações Sul-Sul e da releitura das histórias pós-coloniais. Roberto Vecchi (2008, 2016) contribuiu para redefinir os estudos pós-coloniais através do conceito de “Atlântico do Sul” e da articulação interna entre periferias imperiais que este implica. Mais recentemente, o dossiê temático da revista Via Atlântica, editado por Emerson da Cruz Inácio, Luca Fazzini e Roberto Francavilla (2022), concentrou-se nas continuidades com o passado colonial, nas questões de autoctonia e nas práticas de sobrevivência expressas através de estéticas, teorias e discursos literários e artísticos anti-hegemónicos.
Esta edição monográfica da revista Il Tolomeo propõe-se analisar o Atlântico e as questões acima mencionadas através de uma abordagem pós-colonial multiescalar. Mais especificamente, trata-se de estabelecer um diálogo entre as perspetivas anglófonas, francófonas e lusófonas para compreender como a raça, a migração e as fronteiras continuam a moldar o mundo atlântico numa variedade de contextos pós-coloniais. A dimensão comparativa permite, de facto, compreender as formas como as identidades racializadas, os movimentos migratórios e os modelos de deslocação são construídos, contestados e transformados em diferentes sociedades e espaços culturais.
Convidamos, portanto, colaboradores e colaboradoras a propor artigos que investiguem a forma como as sociedades atlânticas negociam e representam a raça e a migração através de formas literárias, artísticas, cinematográficas ou memoriais através das quais essas dinâmicas são elaboradas.
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Serão apreciados também estudos com uma abordagem interdisciplinar e comparativa, que coloquem as obras nos seus contextos literários e culturais de referência.
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