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A review of Emanuela Anechoum’s Tangerinn by Amber Paulen:
It is interesting that these two Italian novels should come out to the Anglosphere within the same year. They are both deeply critical of the digital social landscape, the American image-making machine of popular culture that moves and devours quickly, but the more I think about it, the more this origin makes sense; despite its firm regional traditions, Italy has absorbed and adapted culturally over centuries. The exodus of young people from the south has lately altered the cultural landscape of the country yet again, weighing it down with the elderly. Italians seem perfectly poised to ask questions about who we are when we immigrate to where the opportunities are better and what “better” even means. For Omar’s generation coming from North Africa, southern Italy was included in the dream of Europe. For Mina’s, it’s a backwater to be traded for northern Europe’s cities.
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