Subalternity | Subalternità

Disregarding the social status, the act of relocation abroad always implies the acquisition of a form of subalternity towards the hegemonic culture. A groundbreaking essat by Gayatri Spivak applied Gramsci's cathegory of the Southern to an expanded context where the political dynamics are determined by the ability to speak the language of the hegemonic group, withouth underestimating the forms of subalternity which are spontaneously associated to tracts immediately visible, related to gender and race - of which Spivak herself constituted an example - as well as disabilities. The category of subalternity variously applies to the multiple possibilities of the Italian diaspora, which has exported abroad habits and believes connected to the traditional patriarchal view of Italian culture, as well as applying forms of racism and patronizing to the newcomers. My works has explored widely those aspects emerging from the chosen texts by keeping an intersectional perspective, with the goal of creating a feeling of empathy towards all forms of discriminations addressed in the wider transnational context of Italian culture, hoping this may facilitate the acquisition of rights of the global Italian community.