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Wu Ming Wu Ming 2, Antar Mohamed Marincola - Timira, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Timira

A Novel

Av Wu Ming Wu Ming 2, Antar Mohamed Marincola

Del i serien Other Voices of Italy

2107 kr

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Timira: A Novel tells the story of Isabella Marincola, a Black Italian born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1925. Her father, Giuseppe, was an Italian official, her mother was his lover, Ashkiro Hassan, a Somali woman. Giuseppe recognized the paternity of Isabella, allowing her to be an Italian citizen. Throughout her life, Isabella—known also by her Somali name, Timira—faced various manifestations of racism and sexism. While she grew up, she was not told she was Black. Her parents had explained that her skin color was the result of the Mogadishu sun. As a young adult, she posed for painters and sculptors, who exoticized her Black body. And when she returned from her years in Somalia to Italy, her Black skin led her into racist confrontations with Italian state bureaucracy, reluctant and ill-equipped to grant a Black Italian citizen the rights and services that white Italian citizens enjoyed. Through Isabella, the novel reflects on the nature of italianità and the ongoing challenge that Italy's colonial past and post-colonial present pose to a predominantly and culturally white European nation.
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Wu Ming 2 is a founding member of the Wu Ming writers' collective in Bologna, Italy. Following the group's philosophy of anonymous authorship, he avoids being photographed and rejects the role of celebrity author. He is coauthor of Wu Ming's series of historical novels, including Q (under the pseudonym Luther Blissett). As a solo artist, his most recent project is the novel Mensaleri.Antar Mohamed Marincola is Isabella Marincola's son. He was born and raised in Mogadishu during Siad Barre's regime. He has been living in Italy since 1983 where he has worked as a cultural mediator, translator, and teacher. When his mother died in 2010, he took over the co-authorship of Timira.David Ward is professor emeritus of Italian Studies at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. He has written five books, one in Italian, including Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism: Stranger than Fact and A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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