The voice of antiquity (Echos and resonances from the Italian in Latin American literature)

Abstract

This work proposes to track some of the appropriations and uses of the foreign he: tage of linguistic, cultural and affective aspects in contemporary Latin American writers. Starting from the idea of national literature as a space of resonance with other literatures and languages, I am interested in analyzing how the Italian legacy is inserted in a canonical literature, which representations are present and how the heir takes charge of this legacy, how he or she inhabits it and intervenes in it, how it is positioned in an in-between space of identity.