This roundtable seeks to investigate the classification of “migrant writer” as writers themselves imagine it within the literary and/or cinematographic works they produce in the countries where they live, work and write. Often the category of “migrant writer” indiscriminately includes migrants, refugees, exiles, and first generation “Italians” (sometimes without citizenship). Yet these different classifications of…
NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Literature of Migration: migrant writers in Italy The massive migrant movement to Italy that followed the fall of communism in Eastern countries in the early 90s is just the beginning of an ongoing massive migrant movement. Immigrant writers’ depictions of their home country often show a tormented relationship with the…