Narrative latinoamericane del confine. Dalla traversata oceanica alla Frontera Norte

Author Biography

Emilia Perassi, University of Turin

Full Professor of Latin-American Language and Literatures at the University of Turin.  She is a member of the Research Centres “Migrazioni e Diritti Umani” of the University of Milan, CILM (Interuniversity Centre for Migrant Literature ) of the University of Udine,  ISEM (Institute of Mediterranean European History) of the National Research Centre. She coordinates the international network Literatura y derechos humanos, with twenty-one member universities (Latin America, Europe, United States).

Her lines of research focus on the configuration of traumatic imaginaries and reparative strategies in the literature of migration (Italy, Argentina and Mexico) and in the dictatorial and post-dictatorial narratives of the Southern Cone through the testimonial perspective. Among the projects related to these themes and included in volumes are Herencia y transmisión del testimonio en América Latina (Ledizioni, Milan 2017), Cosas, objetos, artefactos. Memorias materiales de la violencia en América Latina (Kamchtaka, Universidad de Valencia, 2020), Integración en la globalización (Penguin Random House, Bogotá 2020).

Published

November 11, 2022