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Longing for the Future: Mal D’Afrique and Afro-Optimism in Perspectives on Somalia book cover

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Longing for the Future Mal D’Afrique and Afro-Optimism in Perspectives on Somalia

Edited By Rosetta G. Caponetto, Giusy Di Filippo, Martina Di Florio Copyright 2024
180 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume focuses on a longing projected mostly toward the past (mal d’Afrique) alongside a longing toward the future (afro-optimism), and the different manifestations, shifting meanings, and potential points of contact of these two stances. The volume introduces a new perspective into the discussion of Somalia in Italian Studies. This is an intersectional work of Italian Studies scholarship,... Read more

1. Mal d’Afrique, Mass Communication and Colonial Underpinnings of Humanitarian Interventions in Somalia
Idil Osman

2. Mogadishu’s MeaningScape: Visionary Nostalgia and Mal d’Afrique in
Architecture Exhibitions, Architecture, and Social Media
Giusy Di Filippo

3. Edible Nation: Imagining Somalia Through Cuisine
Vetri Nathan

4. Mogadishu and Love Melancholia in the Work of Nuruddin Farah, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, and Shirin Ramzanali Fazel
F. Fiona Moolla

5. Maryam/Regina: Violenza segreta (1963): A Certain Postcolonialism
Shelleen Greene

6. Nostalgias in Ilaria Alpi – Il più crudele dei giorni: Between Affectivity and Mal d'Afrique
Anita Virga

7. “Performative Piracy” in a Somali Context: Staging the Myth of the Communis Hostis Omnium 
Martina Di Florio

8. Mal d'Afrique and the Postcolony: From Nostalgia to New Forms of Exploitation in Somalia
Awet T. Weldemichael

9. Queering Somali Storytelling: Afro-Fabulation, Narration, and the Queer Black Body in Diriye Osman’s The Butterfly Jungle
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

10. Somalia as it Will Have Been: Afro-Optimism and Stories in the Future Perfect
Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto

Biography

Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto is an Associate Professor at Auburn University. Their research interests include Italy’s colonialism in East Africa, the Italian American diaspora, studies on nostalgia, and food movements and activism. Their publications include Fascist Hybridities. Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini (2015).

Dr. Giusy Di Filippo is an Assistant Professor at College of the Holy Cross. Their research interests include migration, race, and diaspora studies and digital motherhood studies. Their publications include Migrazioni contemporanee. Testi e Contesti (with Martina Di Florio, 2017).

Dr. Martina Di Florio is a Senior Lecturer at Trinity College. Their research interests include migrant and postcolonial writing in Italy; diaspora studies; classical and Mediterranean studies. Their publications include Migrazioni contemporanee. Testi e Contesti (with Giusy Di Filippo, 2017).

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