Diventare estranea e marginale

Rappresentazioni e autorappresentazioni del soggetto migrante in Fra-intendimenti (2010) di Kaha Mohamed Aden

Abstract

In a time where the political, social and media discourse represents the topic of migration and of flight as socially explosive subject, this article analyses how, in the short stories collected in Kaha Mohamed Aden’s Fra-intendimenti (2010), the migrant subject’s self-perception is formed by the stereotypes which their society of arrival cultivate, and how the real complexity experienced by the migrant subject is, at the same time, represented by a double referentiality. For this purpose, Edward Said’s reflections on the European and hegemonic construction of alterity and bell hooks’ intersectional approach which links race and gender will help, on the one hand, in highlighting the stereotypical perceptions of the society of arrival. On the other hand, Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of the Third Space, used to shed light on the dynamics of communication in migratory contexts, will contribute to the establishment of the complex reality experienced by the migrant subject. Thus, the reader is given the opportunity to change their own perception of reality.