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Scego, Igiaba

 
9781913109202: The Colour Line
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ISBN 10: 1913109208 ISBN 13: 9781913109202
Editorial: HopeRoad Publishing, 2023

Sinopsis

It's Rome in 1887, and Lafanu Brown is ready to tell her fiancé the story of her difficult life, how she came from a poor family and audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Native American woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu has had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dream in Rome, and become an established painter, thanks to her indomitable spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence.

 

In 2019, an Italian art curator of Somali origin, is putting together an art exhibition that will combine Brown's paintings with the artwork of modern migrants to Italy. She becomes more and more obsessed with the life and secrets of the nineteenth-century artist, whilst also struggling to get her own young cousin into the country.


Weaving together these two vibrant voices, Igiaba Scego has written a powerful exploration of what it means to be "other", to be a woman, and particularly a Black woman, in a foreign country, yesterday and today.


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Acerca del autor

Igiaba Scego is a Somali Italian writer, cultural activist and freelance scholar. She was born in Rome to Somali parents who took refuge in Italy following a coup d'etat in their native country, where her father served as foreign minister. She holds a PhD in education on postcolonial subjects, has done extensive academic work in Italy and around the world and has a special interest in immigration and mobility. Her memoir won Italy's prestigious Mondello Prize. The Italian edition of The Colour Line won the Premio Napoli. Scego received the International Award Viareggio-Repaci in 2021. Most recently, she was longlisted for this year's Premio Strega (2023), Italy's most prestigious literary award. Her previous novels include Beyond Babylon (2019) and Adua (2017). She also co-edited the anthology series Africana (Feltrinelli), with Chiara Piaggio. Igiaba Scego has written for The Observer, New York Times and Monocle. She is a frequent contributor to La Lettura, the literary supplement to Corriere della Sera and the magazine Internazionale.

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Editorial
HopeRoad Publishing
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
1913109208
ISBN 13 
9781913109202
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
448
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