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Anna FinozziUniversitetslektor i italienska

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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher and I teach at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University. 

My main area of research is Italian Postcolonial Studies; this has proven to be a fruitful field of study to pursue a feminist, decolonial, and interdisciplinary approach to Italian Studies. Under this broader theoretical umbrella, I have explored children’s literature, multilingualism, podcasts, knowledge-production of Italian Studies as a field of research.

My monograph La letteratura italiana postcoloniale per l'infanzia (2010-2022). Lingua, spazio, colore (2023) analyses a corpus of texts published between 2010 and 2022 by migrants and second-generation migrants uncovering how these books display the acquisition of agency by the characters and the rupture of the Eurocentric and adultocentric narrative to de-establish Italian collective memory. This is done along three main interpretative lines that structure the analytical chapters: language, space, and colour. 

Of recent publication:  Call Me By My Name: Naming Practices as Multilingual Devices in Italian Postcolonial Children’s Literature (2024); Postcasting the Italian postcolonial (2023) and Italian Studies across disciplines (2022, with Marco Ceravolo)

 

PhD in Italian literature (Stockholm University, 2022)

BA: Lettere Moderne (Milan, 2013 - Erasmus at the KU Leuven, Belgium)

ReMA: Comparative Literary Studies (Utrecht University, 2016 - Exchange at the UWA, Western Australia)

 

 

Undervisning

Courses:

BA

Year 1: Italian literature 1 - Italiensk litteratur 1

Year 2: History of Italian literature (1900-2000) - Litteraturhistoria Del 2: 1900- och 2000-talets litteratur

Year 3: Premodern literature - Italiensk äldre litteratur

MA

Migrant literature - Migrantlitteratur

Forskning

Research Interests: Postcolonial Studies; Memory Studies; Italian contemporary literature; Children's Literary Studies.

Publikationer

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  • Call Me By My Name: Naming Practices as Multilingual Devices in Italian Postcolonial Children’s Literature

    2024. Anna Finozzi. Barnboken

    Artikel

    This article investigates naming practices in Italian postcolonial children’s literature. I define naming practices as a series of verbal figures that display affirmation of one’s own name. While multilingualism in children’s fiction has recently gained attention, names and naming practices are understudied, especially in contexts of migration. The aim of the article is twofold. First, it investigates how characters defy the mispronunciation of their names. Secondly, it discusses naming strategies in connection to categories of difference such as race, gender, and class in contemporary Italy. Finally, the article demonstrates that naming practices in Italian children’s literature disrupt the monolingual paradigm by representing a multilingual social texture; by doing this, I argue, they contribute to questioning racism and other forms of social oppression in contemporary Italy. This study sets the basis for future research on narrative strategies in multilingual literature in order to educate children in equality.

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  • La letteratura postcoloniale italiana per l’infanzia (2010-2022).: Lingua, spazio, colore

    2023. Anna Finozzi.

    Bok

     Il volume analizza la letteratura postcoloniale italiana per l’infanzia offrendo un’analisi critica e una ricognizione bibliografica dei testi scritti in italiano da migranti e seconde generazioni pubblicati tra il 2010 e il 2022.

    Il lavoro ripercorre le tappe della storia di questo recente corpus a partire dall’uscita dei primi libri bilingui negli anni Novanta fino ad arrivare alle pubblicazioni contemporanee. Queste ultime sono sottoposte a una disamina di carattere transdisciplinare e comparativo lungo tre linee interpretative: lingua, spazio, colore. L’analisi dimostra come la letteratura postcoloniale per l’infanzia discuta questioni di razza, genere, sessualità, abilità e salute mentale attraverso la rivendicazione di agentività da parte dei personaggi, i quali trasgrediscono i confini fisici e concettuali imposti loro dalla società italiana e dal mondo adulto.

    La vivacità formale dei testi del corpus corrompe la linearità di una narrazione consequenziale e monodirezionale e crea, al contrario, delle storie altre, che riscrivono la memoria collettiva con un’intensa negoziazione della lingua, dello spazio e del colore dell’Altro per un’elaborazione plurale, inclusiva e diversificata della storia.

     

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  • Podcasting the Italian Postcolonial: An Analysis of Black Coffee and S/Confini

    2023. Anna Finozzi. The Italianist, 1-18

    Artikel

    This article examines two podcasts,Black CoffeeandS/Confini,authored by Italian second-generation migrants. Podcasting hasrecently been recognised as an independent medium that allowsunheard minorities’voices to emerge. The aim of the article istwofold. Firstly, it tackles the question to what extentBlack CoffeeandS/Confinican be understood as part of a bigger phenomenonof  an  online  presence  of  migrants  and  second-generationmigrants counter-narrating traditional Italian media, following thepostcolonial paradigm. Secondly, it reflects upon the effects ofthis phenomenon on contemporary Italian society. Being runmostly by women, and discussing topics such as race, Italianblackness,  migration,  and identity,  these  podcasts stand  incontrast to the Italian mainstream narrative still imprinted byracist stereotypes. Finally, I demonstrate that podcasts and virtualspaces created by the second generation not only are spaces aptfor the creation of a shared collective memory, but also foster apoliticalfight for equal rights.

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  • Italian Studies across Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity, New Approaches, and Future Directions

    2022. Anna Finozzi.

    Bok

    What does Italian Studies look like today and what scenarios should we expect in the near future? The aim of the volume is to encourage scholars coming from different backgrounds to tackle the discussions already begun on these questions. By selecting some of the most significant theoretical and methodological inputs to these multifaceted debates — Posthuman and Nonhuman Studies, New Materialism, Media Studies, Feminist Studies, Trauma Studies, Children’s Studies — applied to Italian cultural production, the book reflects on interdisciplinarity and collaboration, and suggests new perspectives on the future of Italian Studies as a lively field of research on a global scale.

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  • Riscrivere la storia coloniale tramite l’uso dell’oralità

    2021. anna finozzi. Memoria y narración (2), 131-145

    Artikel

    The article examines the use of orality in Igiaba Scego’s novel Adua (2015). Traditionally, the postcolonial literary text is regarded as a ‘translation’ between two languages: the African oral one and the European written one. The aim of the article is to move the attention from orality as a sign of Otherness towards orality as transmission and re-telling; this critical shift is necessary as Italian postcolonial literature is often regarded more as a documentary text rather than a literary artefact. By relying on Memory Studies, and specifically on concepts such as Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory, Yael Zerubavel’s countermemory and Astrid Erll’s travelling memory, the analysis shows that Adua is built on the oral communication of memories through dialogues between different characters and other images connected to the act of listening and retelling. Eventually, the dichotomy orality-africanity is dismissed in favour of orality-transmission. 

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  • Il canone pedagogico: insegnare la letteratura postcoloniale italiana all’estero

    2020. Anna Finozzi. Italianistica 2.0. Tradizione e innovazione, 307-318

    Kapitel

    Come si inserisce la letteratura postcoloniale nei corsi di letteratura italiana? Quale è stata la sua ricezione e il suo sviluppo, e quale è lo spazio che occupa nel canone pedagogico e letterario universitario? E in che modo si pone in relazione alla letteratura italiana tout-court? L'articolo presenta uno studio qualitativo sull'insegnamento della letteratura postcoloniale italiana in tre università scandinave e analizza i risultati in una prospettiva transnazionale, sottolineando il ruolo cruciale dell'ampliamento di una postcolonial readership per la creazione di una società più inclusiva. 

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  • Conquistare lo Spazio: le mappe alternative nella letteraturapostcoloniale italiana per l’infanzia

    2022. Anna Finozzi. Italian Studies across Disciplines, 203-232

    Kapitel

    What does Italian Studies look like today and what scenarios should we expect in the near future? The aim of the volume is to encourage scholars coming from different backgrounds to tackle the discussions already begun on these questions. By selecting some of the most significant theoretical and methodological inputs to these multifaceted debates — Posthuman and Nonhuman Studies, New Materialism, Media Studies, Feminist Studies, Trauma Studies, Children’s Studies — applied to Italian cultural production, the book reflects on interdisciplinarity and collaboration, and suggests new perspectives on the future of Italian Studies as a lively field of research on a global scale.

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