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Intergenerational memoir structured as a letter from Scego to his niece, Soraya, Cassandra in Mogadiscio recounts the historical turmoil of twentieth-century Somalia through the private affairs of a family. The linguistic component is essential: Scego mixes Italian with the sounds of Somali, in an expressive creolization that stages the compromises of trauma and diaspora. The […]

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 […]