Add to ORKGRevisiting Sites and Locations of Italian-ness: Migrant Authors and Twitteracy Trans-Nationalize the National Italian Canon Martina Di Florio University of Connecticut 2018 During the last thirty years, Italy, a country traditionally of migrants, became a destination for people coming from the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East. In the early 1990s, the first testimonies written in Italian by not Italophone authors appeared. Within less than a decade, the so called “Italian Migrant Literature” evolved beyond accounts of autobiographical circumstances and forced readers to question and reflect on concepts such as the construction of a national Italian identity, its evolution in the multicultural and global present and the need to create a sp...
