Fulvio Tomizza: Writing the Trauma of Exile

In what language is it possible to elaborate the trauma of exile? By dealing with the diaspora from Istria, a borderland located at the intersection of the Italian and the Croato-Slovene civilizations, Fulvio Tomizza (1935-1999), an outstanding and yet still relatively unknown author of the Italian Novecento, questioned exile in depth. This exile, which took place after the post-war redefinition of the Italo-Yugoslav border, corresponds to a trauma, that can be better analysed through the language used by Tomizza, in particular through his multilingualism and self-translation. In this work, Deganutti suggests that only the Italian language the author chooses to write his novels – which corresponds both to a native and a translated tongue – allows him to cope with the trauma of exile, or at least with what could be told about it.

Marianna Deganutti is a Research Associate at the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies – University of Bath.

See news item: Marianna Deganutti at ICI London (1 March 2021)

Reviews:

‘Deganutti’s monograph is a fine and original book whose ultimate merit is to reclaim multilingual, multicultural Tomizza and the exilic predicament of the Istrian borderlands for Italian literature. It is to be hoped that her study will inspire further cross-cultural research on this still contentious and yet incredibly generative literary, historical, and memorial field.’ — Katia Pizzi, Modern Language Review 115.3, July 2020, 736-37 (full text online)

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ix-x	Acknowledgements M.D. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.3	Cite
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1-10	Introduction Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.4	Cite
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11-41	Chapter 1 Istria: A Frontier Land Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.5	Cite
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42-69	Chapter 2 Borderland, Language, and the Trauma of the Exile: A Theoretical Approach Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.6	Cite
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70-100	Chapter 3 Before Exile: Bilingualism and Self-Translation in Materada and La Miglior Vita Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.7	Cite
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101-126	Chapter 4 the Exilic Rift in La Ragazza Di Petrovia and L’albero Dei Sogni Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.8	Cite
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127-157	Chapter 5 After Exile: the Writer in Translation From L’amicizia To Franziska Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.9	Cite
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158-165	Conclusion Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.10	Cite
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166-178	Bibliography Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.11	Cite
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179-184	Index Marianna Deganutti doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km083.12	Cite
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Fulvio TomizzaWriting the Trauma of Exile

Marianna Deganutti

Fulvio Tomizza
Writing the Trauma of Exile