Rereading Afropean Identities through Espérance Hakuzwimana’s Tutta intera

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_13987
dc.title	Rereading Afropean Identities through Espérance Hakuzwimana’s Tutta intera
dc.contributor.author	Medugno Marco
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2023/25/rereading-afropean-identities-through-esperance-ha/
dc.description.abstract	This article investigates the term ‘Afropean’ through an analysis of Espérance Hakuzwimana’s debut novel Tutta intera (2022). It aims to show how the novel, far from losing sight of the national context as the term ‘Afropean’ implies, effectively mediates issues related to specific localities and temporalities (racist and racial configurations in Italy in the 2010s) and transnational influences (the European and North American experiences of colonialism and slavery). By exploring the intersection of Afropean and Afroitalian, the novel aims to decentre the notion of (white) Europeanness and Italianness while highlighting global articulations of Blackness. Space, language, and class will be key elements to demonstrate how the novel expands the boundaries of Afropean/Afropeanness beyond race to promote a more inclusive and intersectional understanding of the term.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 25 \| Dicembre 2023
dc.issued	2023-12-18
dc.dateAccepted	2023-09-26
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-06-23
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/012
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Afroitalian
dc.subject	Afropean
dc.subject	Blackness
dc.subject	Colour blindness
dc.subject	Europeanness
dc.subject	Italianness

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Rereading Afropean Identities through Espérance Hakuzwimana’s Tutta intera

Marco Medugno Newcastle University, UK

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abstract

This article investigates the term ‘Afropean’ through an analysis of Espérance Hakuzwimana’s debut novel Tutta intera (2022). It aims to show how the novel, far from losing sight of the national context as the term ‘Afropean’ implies, effectively mediates issues related to specific localities and temporalities (racist and racial configurations in Italy in the 2010s) and transnational influences (the European and North American experiences of colonialism and slavery). By exploring the intersection of Afropean and Afroitalian, the novel aims to decentre the notion of (white) Europeanness and Italianness while highlighting global articulations of Blackness. Space, language, and class will be key elements to demonstrate how the novel expands the boundaries of Afropean/Afropeanness beyond race to promote a more inclusive and intersectional understanding of the term.

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18 Dicembre 2023

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26 Settembre 2023

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23 Giugno 2023

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Keywords: Blackness • Afroitalian • Italianness • Europeanness • Afropean • Colour blindness

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/012

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