Sofferti percorsi di identità nazionale nelle opere di tre scrittrici immigrate di nuova generazione
Troubled Journeys towards National Identity in the works of three Newn Generation immigrant writers

Summary/Abstract: Consulting Basili&Limm, the on-line database of immigrant writers in Italy, we decided to consider three female authors who in their works most directly highlight their 'other' Italian identity: Nima Sharmahd, in her Un’italiana non italiana. Le peripezie di una straniera" in Italia (A non-Italian Italian. The vicissitudes of a "foreigner" in Italy, 2011), denounces the difficulties Italians have in dealing with cultures distant from their own. Natalia Maraffini, author of the short story La straniera segreta (The secret stranger, 2021), evokes a painful condition of marginality and non-belonging, which can only be redeemed by the contact with her pupils, therefore by the an educational relationship. Finally, in her novel The Only Black Person in the Room (2021), Nadeesha Uyangoda remarks on the invisibility of the black person, who is the object of a concealed and insidious racism that denies them prominence and centrality in a still closed and provincial Italian society.

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