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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
Language as a subject
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.