Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2018, 14(1):33-41 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2018.003

L’uomo e la virilità nella narrativa migrante italianaItalian

Karol KARP
Università Niccolò Copernico, Toruñ

Parole-chiave: letteratura italiana della migrazione; uomo; virilità; tipologie diverse

Man and virility in Italian migrant fiction

The present article deals with the concept of masculinity and the male character in texts characterized as Italian migrant literature. The paper comprises three parts, the first of which focuses on the characters depicted as real men, the second observes those with a tendency to contradict their own masculinity, and the third discusses those that are entirely deprived of it. The reflections on masculinity are set against the social, psychological and sexual backdrops. The analysis features the novels of Lilin, Melliti and Khouma, and a short story by Scego that outlines the various figures of man in migrant literature. In its variety, the story allows for a multidimensional depiction of the problem under examination. The article's theoretical foundation rests on the works of such thinkers as Barthes, Butler, Ferenc, Foucault, Freud, Gilmore, Grosz, Haskell, Mizerkiewicz, Schӧnborn and Wróbel.

Keywords: Italian migrant literature; men; masculinity; different typologies

Published: June 11, 2018  Show citation

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KARP, K. (2018). L’uomo e la virilità nella narrativa migrante italiana. Écho des études romanes, 14(1-2), 33-41. doi: 10.32725/eer.2018.003
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