Publications
Publication details [#58999]
Palladino, Mariangela. 2014. Divorce and dialogue: intertextuality in Amara Lakhous' Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi. Language and Intercultural Communication 14 (3) : 287–303. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Giving prominence to intertextuality and ‘writing back’ as means of intercultural communication, this article examines the intertextual relations between Amara Lakhous' novel Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi (2010), a postcolonial response to Pietro Germi's 1961 film Divorzio all'italiana, exploring irony and multivocal narrative use in the novel as intercultural mediation strategies.