UniorPress - IMECA - L’Italia e l’italiano nel Mediterraneo e nelle ex colonie african

Series Directors: Rosa Piro

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: IMECA - L’Italia e l’italiano nel Mediterraneo e nelle ex colonie africane

Editorial Board: Flavia Aiello, Rita Lettieri, Chiara Longo, Paolo Miccoli, Martin Orwin, Angelica Vitiello

Scientific Committee: Daniele Baglioni (Università Ca’ Foscari), Giorgio Banti (Università di Napoli L’Orientale), Guido Maria Cappelli (Università di Napoli L’Orientale), Soufiane Chaari (Université de Sfax), Daniele Comberiati (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier), Luca D’Anna (Università di Napoli L’Orientale), Elvira Diana (Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio” – Chieti-Pescara), Luisa Revelli (Università della Valle d’Aosta), Laura Ricci (Università per Stranieri di Siena), Raymond Siebetcheu (Università per Stranieri di Siena), Daniela Vellutino (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Alessandro Volterra (Università Roma Tre)

Language: italian, français, english

Aims and scope: The series Italy and the Italian Language in the Mediterranean and in the Former African Colonies (IMECA) was established with the aim of exploring, from a linguistic, historical, and cultural perspective, the multiple forms of relationship that have linked Italy to the history of the Mediterranean over the centuries and, in the contemporary period, to its former African colonies. Within this complex and stratified space, Italian has circulated as a lingua franca—used in trade, diplomacy, migration, and schooling—but also as an instrument of colonial domination and, later, as a vehicle of memory, mediation, and resistance. Alongside these trajectories, the series also pays attention to the literary language of “new Italians,” an expression of the sociolinguistic and cultural transformations shaping today’s plural Italy, in which diasporic, transnational, and postcolonial voices contribute to redefining identities, imaginaries, and the forms of contemporary Italian.