Dal salto associativo alla metaforizzazione dello spazio

Strategie narrative e paratestuali in Kaha Mohamed Aden

Abstract

This article analyses the literary strategies which bring the historical-political and socio-cultural space of Somalia closer to the Italian context of reception in Fra-intendimenti (2010) and Dalmar. La disfavola degli elefanti (2019) by Kaha Mohamed Aden. The concept of the text as structural space according to Jurij Lotman, those of ethno- and mediascapes according to Arjun Appadurai, the paratext by Gérard Genette and referentiality according to Ralf Simon are employed to highlight not only the spacial-literary techniques and their implications, but also a diachronic development from a strong presentialisation of Somalia in Fra-Intendimenti to a metaphorical abstraction of Somalia in Dalmar, which leads to a more general conception of social space.