NYU Florence - Black Italia - "Cara Mamma, Sono in Africa": Cameras, Soldiers, Empires

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“Cara mamma, sono in africa”: cameras, Soldiers, empires
Black Italia

Novelist Maaza Mengiste discusses her forthcoming book, set during the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, and her fascinating and troubling encounters with Italian soldiers' letters home.

Maaza Mengiste is a Fulbright Scholar and the author of the novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. Among other places, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Guardian, Granta, BBC Radio, TAR, and Lettre International. She is the 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow and has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Emily Harvey Foundation. She was a runner-up for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a finalist for a Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, an NAACP Image Award, and an Indies Choice Book of the Year Award in Adult Debut. Her next novel, The Shadow King, is set in Fascist Italy and Ethiopia in the early days of WWII. Through its use of multiple narrators, Italian and Ethiopian, and both male and female soldiers, it uses fiction to explore the intersections of conflict, photography and colonialism.It is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

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