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This book is a major contribution to the study of a set of selected texts in modern Italian and Australian literature, and to the use of language as an accessory to a positive and ultimately ordained representation of colonialism, hiding issues of conquest, dominion, and exploitation. The great merit of this book is not only that it produces innovative readings of significant literary texts but that it also positions them at the cutting edge of a reappraisal of literature as a useful epistemological instrument to gain access to experiences of colonisation. This is achieved through a critical discourse which is sustained but also engaging, rich, and textured. (Paolo Bartoloni, Head of Italian Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway)

«This book is a major contribution to the study of a set of selected texts in modern Italian and Australian literature, and to the use of language as an accessory to a positive and ultimately ordained representation of colonialism, hiding issues of conquest, dominion, and exploitation. The great merit of this book is not only that it produces innovative readings of significant literary texts but that it also positions them at the cutting edge of a reappraisal of literature as a useful epistemological instrument to gain access to experiences of colonisation. This is achieved through a critical discourse which is sustained but also engaging, rich, and textured.» (Paolo Bartoloni, Head of Italian Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway)

This book is a major contribution to the study of a set of selected texts in modern Italian and Australian literature, and to the use of language as an accessory to a positive and ultimately ordained representation of colonialism, hiding issues of conquest, dominion, and exploitation. The great merit of this book is not only that it produces innovative readings of significant literary texts but that it also positions them at the cutting edge of a reappraisal of literature as a useful epistemological instrument to gain access to experiences of colonisation. This is achieved through a critical discourse which is sustained but also engaging, rich, and textured. (Paolo Bartoloni, Head of Italian Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway)

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Sabina Sestigiani recived her PhD in Comparative Literature from Monash University. She has published in scholarly journals such as Orbis Litterarum, The Italianist, Studi buzzatiani and Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique. She lectures in Italian Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

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