‎"‎An important contribution to the field of postcolonial studies‎,‎ this volume offers wide‎-ranging and provocative analyses of the intricately interconnected legacies of colonialism‎,‎ emigration‎,‎ and global migration in Italy‎.‎ Mapping a landscape of postcolonial studies that is unique to Italy in terms of its regimes of race‎,‎ gender‎,‎ citizenship and cultural transformations‎,‎ Postcolonial Italy engenders radically new and challenging critiques of hegemonic British/Indian/USA centered formulations of postcolonial studies‎.‎‎"‎ ‎- Chandra Talpade Mohanty‎,‎ author of Feminism Without Borders‎,‎ Decolonizing Theory‎,‎ Practicing Solidarity ‎(‎2003‎)‎ ‎"‎An essential book for any scholar of modern Italy‎,‎ but in fact for anybody interested in the perduring effects of colonialism in today‎'‎s globalized world‎,‎ Postcolonial Italy has the rare merit of casting a bold look not only at the silenced history of Italian colonialism overseas‎,‎ but also at that chapter of Italy‎'‎s internal colonialism known as ‎'‎the southern question‎.‎‎'‎ The contributions‎,‎ drawing from postcolonial studies‎,‎ cultural studies‎,‎ race theory‎,‎ and gender studies‎,‎ will be of compelling interest to readers in a wide range of fields‎.‎‎"‎ ‎- Roberto Dainotto‎,‎ Professor of Italian and of Literature‎,‎ Duke University‎,‎ USA ‎"‎This is an important collection of critical essays which engages head‎-on with the challenging inheritance of colonialism‎.‎ Today‎,‎ it is the return of this negated past in representations of race‎,‎ racism and the much‎-maligned migrant that poses the principal political challenge of a heterogeneous‎,‎ postcolonial Italy‎.‎‎"‎ ‎- Iain Chambers‎,‎ Universita degli Studi di Napoli ‎'‎L‎'‎Orientale‎,‎‎'‎ Italy