Il menù di bordo. Nutrirsi durante il viaggio migratorio

Authors

  • Emilia Perassi Università di Bologna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/9550

Keywords:

Food, literature, migration, Latin America, travel

Abstract

In migration studies about literature, food usually signals the preservation of a migrant’s identity in his/her new country. Considered as a transitional condition, the very travel of migration itself is instead overlooked and perceived as a non-place. Consequently, also all aspects of migration related to feeding are mostly ignored. In my paper, I will argue that spaces of transit are heterotopic spaces rather than non-places. In these spaces, the lack of food, or its being often a ‘leftover’, is a key fact to understand the representation of the commerce of migrant bodies.

Published

2019-06-15

How to Cite

Perassi, E. (2019). Il menù di bordo. Nutrirsi durante il viaggio migratorio. Confluenze. Rivista Di Studi Iberoamericani, 11(1), 44–55. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/9550