Caterina Romeo
Biographic Data
| ID | 357893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caterina Romeo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caterina |
| FAMILY NAME | Romeo |
| SIGNATURE | ROMEO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4502-8248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature
Narrating the Transnational Trajectories and Transgender Performances of the Sworn Virgin
This article explores how two recent configurations of the Albanian sworn virgin prompt a reflection on the intersection of transgender discourses with questions of transnational mobility. Elvira Dones’s novel Vergine giurata and its eponymous cinematic adaptation (directed by Laura Bispuri) imagine in diverging ways the material and symbolic disruptions that occur when this tribally sanctioned figure leaves Albania for another nation. Novel and …
The Intersectional Counter-Gaze of Geneviève Makaping in Traiettorie di sguardi
Traiettorie di sguardi is a hybrid text – partly memoir, partly anthropological essay – in which for the first time in Italian literature the author as a Black woman reverses the colonial gaze and records the racist attitude of the Italian population toward Black people. Makaping thus rewrites a long ethnographic tradition in which Africans have constituted the object of observation rather than the subjects of epistemology and produces the first …
FromPecore neretoFuture: Anthologizing intersectional Blackness in contemporary Italy
This article develops an analysis of Future (2019), the first anthology to bring together texts by Black Italian women and non-binary writers of African and Caribbean descent, and reads it in continuity with the pioneering anthology Pecore nere (Black Sheep) (2005), the first collection of short stories to thematize racial difference in postcolonial Italy. It initially articulates a reflection on the anthology as an autonomous genre that has had …
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy
Intersectionality, both as a theoretical framework and a methodological tool, has only recently been embraced in Italy (see, among others, Bonfiglioli et al. 2009; Perilli and Ellena 2012; Marchetti 2012; Merrill 2006, 2018; Kan 2021; Giovanni Bello 2020; Marini- Maio, Bonifazio, and Nerenberg 2021), a country that has shaped its national identity around the presumed “chromatic norm” (Romeo 2012) of whiteness. The term “intersectionality” was coi…
Amplifying Black Italian voices: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo
This interview with writer and activist Leaticia Ouedraogo was conducted via email during May and June 2022. Ouedraogo discusses what the concept of intersectionality means to her on a personal, political, and theoretical level, and how it is necessary to adopt an intersectional perspective, along with a decolonial practice, to fight sexism and racism. Starting from her short story “Nassan Tenga” (published in the anthology Future. Il domani narr…
The importance of self-definition: An interview with Djarah Kan
This interview with Djarah Kan was conducted via email during May and June 2022. Djarah Kan discusses the importance of self-definition as a political act and highlights the power dynamics connected to the process of naming. Starting from her book Ladri di denti (Tooth Thieves), her short story “Il mio nome” (My Name) (published in the anthology Future), and some articles published in Italian journals and magazines, Kan addresses the issue of imm…
Intersecting Postcolonial Studies and Film Studies
Questo articolo mette a confronto il contributo che due testi come Postcolonial cinema studies (a cura di Sandra Ponzanesi e Marguerite Waller) e Postcolonial film: history, empire, resistance (a cura di Rebecca Weaver-Hightower e Peter Hulme) danno al campo dei film studies e degli studi postcoloniali
Italy's Postcolonial ‘Question: Views from the Southern Frontier of Europe
Italy, like other European countries, reckons today with its sense of cultural roots within a unified Europe.Current re-examinations of its postcolonial national identity can be seen as a reaction to the fast-paced demographic changes brought about by immigration and globalisation. This is true also for the other European countries. In what follows, we examine what constitutes the postcolonial condition of contemporary Italy and place such condit…
State of the Union: Survival Blankets and Falling Stars
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks in 2015, as spontaneous, civil mobilizations against terrorism mounted, it became increasingly clear that the very \nspatial organization of Europe’s cultural values and political borders was at stake. Europeans rallied, in the name of their shared values, against a common, \ninternal enemy. In light of these latest events, how does a postcolonial approach to Europe illuminate the politics of Eu…
The Italian Postcolonial: A Manifesto
In questo saggio le autrici definiscono la condizione della conteporaneità italiana come essenzialmente postcoloniale. Se la memoria coloniale in Italia è stata messa a tacere e solo (parzialmente) riattivata con le migrazioni transnazionali in arrivo a partire dagli anni Novanta, ci sono altri fattori specifici della storia e della cultura italiana che si combinano con la storia coloniale e le immigrazioni contemporanee, che contribuiscono a cre…
Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity
This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literar
Italy's Postcolonial ‘Question: Views from the Southern Frontier of Europe
Italy, like other European countries, reckons today with its sense of cultural roots within a unified Europe.Current re-examinations of its postcolonial national identity can be seen as a reaction to the fast-paced demographic changes brought about by immigration and globalisation. This is true also for the other European countries. In what follows, we examine what constitutes the postcolonial condition of contemporary Italy and place such condit…
FromPecore neretoFuture: Anthologizing intersectional Blackness in contemporary Italy
This article develops an analysis of Future (2019), the first anthology to bring together texts by Black Italian women and non-binary writers of African and Caribbean descent, and reads it in continuity with the pioneering anthology Pecore nere (Black Sheep) (2005), the first collection of short stories to thematize racial difference in postcolonial Italy. It initially articulates a reflection on the anthology as an autonomous genre that has had …
Amplifying Black Italian voices: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo
This interview with writer and activist Leaticia Ouedraogo was conducted via email during May and June 2022. Ouedraogo discusses what the concept of intersectionality means to her on a personal, political, and theoretical level, and how it is necessary to adopt an intersectional perspective, along with a decolonial practice, to fight sexism and racism. Starting from her short story “Nassan Tenga” (published in the anthology Future. Il domani narr…
The importance of self-definition: An interview with Djarah Kan
This interview with Djarah Kan was conducted via email during May and June 2022. Djarah Kan discusses the importance of self-definition as a political act and highlights the power dynamics connected to the process of naming. Starting from her book Ladri di denti (Tooth Thieves), her short story “Il mio nome” (My Name) (published in the anthology Future), and some articles published in Italian journals and magazines, Kan addresses the issue of imm…
State of the Union: Survival Blankets and Falling Stars
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks in 2015, as spontaneous, civil mobilizations against terrorism mounted, it became increasingly clear that the very \nspatial organization of Europe’s cultural values and political borders was at stake. Europeans rallied, in the name of their shared values, against a common, \ninternal enemy. In light of these latest events, how does a postcolonial approach to Europe illuminate the politics of Eu…
Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity
This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literar
The Italian Postcolonial: A Manifesto
In questo saggio le autrici definiscono la condizione della conteporaneità italiana come essenzialmente postcoloniale. Se la memoria coloniale in Italia è stata messa a tacere e solo (parzialmente) riattivata con le migrazioni transnazionali in arrivo a partire dagli anni Novanta, ci sono altri fattori specifici della storia e della cultura italiana che si combinano con la storia coloniale e le immigrazioni contemporanee, che contribuiscono a cre…
Italy's Postcolonial ‘Question: Views from the Southern Frontier of Europe
Italy, like other European countries, reckons today with its sense of cultural roots within a unified Europe.Current re-examinations of its postcolonial national identity can be seen as a reaction to the fast-paced demographic changes brought about by immigration and globalisation. This is true also for the other European countries. In what follows, we examine what constitutes the postcolonial condition of contemporary Italy and place such condit…
State of the Union: Survival Blankets and Falling Stars
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks in 2015, as spontaneous, civil mobilizations against terrorism mounted, it became increasingly clear that the very \nspatial organization of Europe’s cultural values and political borders was at stake. Europeans rallied, in the name of their shared values, against a common, \ninternal enemy. In light of these latest events, how does a postcolonial approach to Europe illuminate the politics of Eu…
Intersecting Postcolonial Studies and Film Studies
Questo articolo mette a confronto il contributo che due testi come Postcolonial cinema studies (a cura di Sandra Ponzanesi e Marguerite Waller) e Postcolonial film: history, empire, resistance (a cura di Rebecca Weaver-Hightower e Peter Hulme) danno al campo dei film studies e degli studi postcoloniali
Narrating the Transnational Trajectories and Transgender Performances of the Sworn Virgin
This article explores how two recent configurations of the Albanian sworn virgin prompt a reflection on the intersection of transgender discourses with questions of transnational mobility. Elvira Dones’s novel Vergine giurata and its eponymous cinematic adaptation (directed by Laura Bispuri) imagine in diverging ways the material and symbolic disruptions that occur when this tribally sanctioned figure leaves Albania for another nation. Novel and …
The Intersectional Counter-Gaze of Geneviève Makaping in Traiettorie di sguardi
Traiettorie di sguardi is a hybrid text – partly memoir, partly anthropological essay – in which for the first time in Italian literature the author as a Black woman reverses the colonial gaze and records the racist attitude of the Italian population toward Black people. Makaping thus rewrites a long ethnographic tradition in which Africans have constituted the object of observation rather than the subjects of epistemology and produces the first …
FromPecore neretoFuture: Anthologizing intersectional Blackness in contemporary Italy
This article develops an analysis of Future (2019), the first anthology to bring together texts by Black Italian women and non-binary writers of African and Caribbean descent, and reads it in continuity with the pioneering anthology Pecore nere (Black Sheep) (2005), the first collection of short stories to thematize racial difference in postcolonial Italy. It initially articulates a reflection on the anthology as an autonomous genre that has had …
Of pink (and red) paint, Black lives (that matter), and intersectionality in Italy
Intersectionality, both as a theoretical framework and a methodological tool, has only recently been embraced in Italy (see, among others, Bonfiglioli et al. 2009; Perilli and Ellena 2012; Marchetti 2012; Merrill 2006, 2018; Kan 2021; Giovanni Bello 2020; Marini- Maio, Bonifazio, and Nerenberg 2021), a country that has shaped its national identity around the presumed “chromatic norm” (Romeo 2012) of whiteness. The term “intersectionality” was coi…
Amplifying Black Italian voices: An interview with Leaticia Ouedraogo
This interview with writer and activist Leaticia Ouedraogo was conducted via email during May and June 2022. Ouedraogo discusses what the concept of intersectionality means to her on a personal, political, and theoretical level, and how it is necessary to adopt an intersectional perspective, along with a decolonial practice, to fight sexism and racism. Starting from her short story “Nassan Tenga” (published in the anthology Future. Il domani narr…
The importance of self-definition: An interview with Djarah Kan
This interview with Djarah Kan was conducted via email during May and June 2022. Djarah Kan discusses the importance of self-definition as a political act and highlights the power dynamics connected to the process of naming. Starting from her book Ladri di denti (Tooth Thieves), her short story “Il mio nome” (My Name) (published in the anthology Future), and some articles published in Italian journals and magazines, Kan addresses the issue of imm…
Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature
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