30127 - Sociology of Literature (LM)

Course contents

HANNIBAL'S SONS. BEING A BLACK IN ITALY.

The Italian community today turns out to be the outcome of invasions and genetic cultural exchanges, driven in depth by racist ghosts. These threats usually rise-up either against the designation of a public minister, or during football events, either through verbal and physical racist attacks towards those citizens considered different and at a social bottom level, only because of skin color.

 

Bias against those foreigners and their sons resident in Italy, who are actually the expression of a new Italian identity, open to globalization and cultural inter-changes. These new Italian people, devoid of any citizenship rights, suffer from the consequences of a strong and persistent racist collective imagination, born of colonialism season and fed by the xenophobic reactions of today.

 

Thanks to the detailed and rich literature created by the new migrant authors, course classes will be organized in order to be focused on the impact of racist phenomena and on the possible ways of transformation and willingness to co-exist together in the Italian society of the future. 

 

Readings/Bibliography

The reading list will be available online in January 2014.

The programme and the bibliography are the same both for students who attend and for students who do not attend the lessons.

Teaching methods

FRONTAL LESSONS

Classes start in the second semester (february-march 2014).

Assessment methods

ORAL EXAMINATION

The evaluation of the students' competencies and abilities acquired during the course consists in an oral interview which has the aim of evaluating the critical and methodological ability of the students. The students will be invited to discuss the tests on the course programme. The student must demonstrate an appropriate knowledge of the bibliography in the course programme.

Those students who are able to demonstrate a wide and systematic understanding of the issues covered during the lessons, are able to use these critically and who master the field-specific language of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence.

Those students who demonstrate a mnemonic knowledge of the subject with a more superficial analytical ability and ability to synthesize, a correct command of the language but not always appropriate, will be given a ‘fair' mark.

A superficial knowledge and understanding of the material, a scarce analytical and expressive ability that is not always appropriate will be rewarded with a pass mark or just above a pass mark.

Students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the subject matter, inappropriate language use, lack of familiarity with the literature in the programme bibliography will not be given a pass mark.

 

Office hours

See the website of Fulvio Pezzarossa