Sul confine. Letteratura europea tra identità e alterità (On the border. European Literature between Identity and Alterity)

Abstract

The theme of European identity, seen from the perspective of literature, on the one hand deals with a series of theoretical and historiographical questions: is there a literary identity of Europe? how can we write an History of European literature? On the other, we can find ideological and linguistic signs of European identity inside of literary texts, also in a dialectical relationship with Alterity. This is verified here with the literary figure of the ‘Moor’ in a short story by Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinzio, and with the theme of the East in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

Keywords

• identity
• alterity
• Moor
• Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinzio
• Italo Calvino