ITAL 305 - Italophone African Narratives, from Colonialism to Post-Colonialism

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

From Italy’s Fascist colonial aspirations of the 1930s, through the “un-thinking eurocentrism” of the post-war generation, to the contemporary migritudine, we trace the engendering of Africa as concept and as reality in the Italian sociolect and society. Films may include Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Antonioni’s L’Eclisse, Pasolini’s The African Orestes, Bertolucci’s Besieged, and Michele Placido’s Pummarò. Texts by African and African-Italian women writers may include works by Igiaba Scego, Cristina Ubax Ali Farah, Ribka Sibhatu, and Ramzanali Fazel. In Italian. Sole Anatrone.

Prerequisite(s): ITAL 220, ITAL 222; or ITAL 217, ITAL 218 with the permission of the instructor.

Not offered in 2024/25.

Course Format: CLS