Immaginari neocoloniali e nuove pratiche di autonarrazione: il ruolo dei media digitali

In this article, the author analyzes the articulation of the concepts of race, gender, and color in the Italian context. Starting from the analysis of the historical phenomena that played a crucial role in the construction of racial categories in Italy (such as the racialization of the South and colonialism), the article explores the re-proposition of colonial stereotypes in contemporary media narratives. The last section focuses on the practices of self-narration of three Italian women writers of African descent, who use social media as a tool to build spaces of visibility and empowerment for subjectivities traditionally excluded from mainstream representations.