Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Italian and Italian Studies
Bryn Mawr College

“Sites of Colonial Memory in Postcolonial Rome”

This presentation focuses on the latest work of the second-generation Somali-Italian writer, Igiaba Scego. In this book, the touristic map of Rome will be replaced by a lesser known map of Postcolonial sites of memory. I will discuss the relation between memory, forgetting, monuments of colonialism in Rome and postcolonial literature.