Postcolonial Memories of Colonialism
This chapter’s introductory section includes some theoretical reflections on the memory of colonialism by Ann Laura Stoler, Gloria Wekker, Sandro Triulzi, Luisa Passerini, and Sandra Ponzanesi. The aim is to build a theoretical framework in which to place
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The Horn of Africa Diasporas in Italy
Gabriele Proglio
The Horn of Africa Diasporas in Italy An Oral History
Gabriele Proglio Centre for Social Studies University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal
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Foreword
Three voices animate this book: the chorus, often discordant but always informative and stimulating, of the experts in fields that go from postcolonial history to anthropology to border studies; the individual voices of the interviewees, which in spite of the singularity of each person compose a multifarious narrative displaying recurrences as well as contrasts; and the voice of the author, who appears in the double guise of the scholar and the researcher/interviewer in direct contact with the people he interpellates. The first voice testifies to Gabriele Proglio’s assiduous exploration of a body of expertise in the history of the relationships between the colonizers and the colonized; Proglio is at ease conversing with masters in the fields of cultural theory and history ranging from Stuart Hall to Ann Laura Stoler, extracting suggestions from their works for his own as well as criticizing some aspects of this entire body of research. The resulting documentation of secondary sources that is rightly limited in quantity is well governed by his approach, as of somebody who can be considered an intellectual heir, not uncritical, of that patrimony—a term that no longer merely represents the heritage of
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