Visions of Community & Racism (via Italy)

April 5, -
Speaker(s): Saskia Ziolkowski, Assistant Professor of Romance Studies

Igiaba Scego’s “Sausages” (“Salsicce,” 2003) is a prize-winning, 12-page story about a woman who considers how eating sausage would affect her identities, as Italian, Somali, Sunni, and Black. We will discuss the historical, literary, and cultural contexts for the narrator’s struggles to investigate the complexity of belonging in modern Italy. One guiding question will be how this literary expression of an Italian experience can challenge American views of identity and belonging.

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