Series | Diaspore
Monograph | Italy, Elsewhere
Chapter | 5 • Camminare
5 • Camminare
Abstract
This chapter argues that Wu Ming 2’s Il sentiero luminoso (2016) and Giuliano Santoro’s Su due piedi. Camminando per un mese attraverso la Calabria (2012) describe walking as an activity which allows one to recognize the social modifications of space, and to rethink the geographies of suburban areas in Italy. This analysis resounds with Robert P. Marzec’s invitation to study how literature has represented the privatization and the capitalist and neoliberal organization of space, thus revealing forms of internal colonization, which epitomize a pillar of colonial ideology. Il sentiero luminoso and Su due piedi reconfigure walking as an epistemological, ecocritical and postcolonial practice which allows one to cross paths with people who are marginalized in Italy, especially migrants.
Submitted: Sept. 7, 2021 | Accepted: June 19, 2022 | Published Oct. 18, 2022 | Language: it
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