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Winner of 2011 Mondello Prize. Scego structures his autobiography through a comparativemapping of Rome and Mogadiscio. The narration stages the contradictions inherent to theremotion of Italian colonial past and of contemporary racism. The author proposes a model oftranscultural identity, capable to hybrid Italian and Somali culture, maintaining theconsciousness of the power relationships that structure contemporary […]

Winner of the Booker of Bookers Prize, Midnight’s Children is numbered among the majornovels that have allowed the postcolonial turn in Anglo-Saxon literature and criticism. The protagonist Saleem Sinai tells the story of the “midnight’s children” born in the moment ofIndian independence from Great Britain. Their multiplicity of voices, languages, identities,registers become the allegory of […]