DECOLONIZE THE MIND OF ITALIANS

Abstract

This work deals with the extreme provincialism that has characterized and characterizes Italian studies. Italy, in fact, is a country that has lost pace with modernity already in the fifteenth century, when the rest of Europe was opening up to the phenomenon of "globalization". We have demonstrated how, since then, Italy has taken refuge in the myth of Classicism and the Renaissance, from which it has not managed to get out even after the country has joined in a single state entity. The great emigration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century helped to de-provincialize many Italians, but not art, literature and literary criticism. Criticism did everything to remove the period and the Italian colonial atrocities in Africa. In the second post-war period, while the criticism of colonialism was beginning to take hold throughout Europe, the Italian bourgeoisie (which held economic, political and cultural power) preferred to ignore its deadline operated in the Horn of Africa, Greece and Albania. At the same time, he ignored the lively frontier literature, the Istrian one. Precisely for this reason, in the second part of this work we have dealt with the novel by the Istrian of adoption Eros Sequi, "Le case di pothia.