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  • My Language Is a Jealous Lover by Adrián N. Bravi, Giovanna Bellesia, and Victoria Offredi Poletto

    My Language Is a Jealous Lover

    Adrián N. Bravi, Giovanna Bellesia, and Victoria Offredi Poletto

    Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere.

    My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov to Ágota Kristóf and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adrián N. Bravi weaves their stories in with his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian, thinking and writing in the language of his new life while recalling that of his childhood. Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the pain, and the joys of embracing another language.

  • Reversing the Gaze What If the Other Were You? by Geneviève Makaping, Giovanna Bellesia, and Victoria Offredi Poletto

    Reversing the Gaze What If the Other Were You?

    Geneviève Makaping, Giovanna Bellesia, and Victoria Offredi Poletto

    Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly recounts her experiences—first across Africa and then as a migrant Black woman in Italy—Makaping describes acts of racist aggression that are wearying and degrading to encounter on a daily basis. She also offers her perspective on how various forms of inequality based on race, color, gender, and class feed off each other. Reversing the Gaze invites readers to confront the question of racism through the retelling of everyday occurrences that we might have experienced as victims, perpetrators, or witnesses.

 
 
 

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