Erminia Dell'Oro
Born (1938-04-04) 4 April 1938
Asmara, Italian East Africa
NationalityItalian
OccupationWriter

Erminia Dell'Oro (born 4 April 1938) is an Italian writer and novelist born in the Italian Eritrea.[1][2][3]

Career

Dell'Oro is of Italian ascendancy. She was born on 4 April 1938 in Asmara, the city where she spent the first twenty years. of her life. Her paternal grandfather moved from Lecco to Eritrea in 1886 following the colonial adventures of Italians at that time and supported by the Italian government. Her childhood and adolescence was experienced in Eritrea where she grew up under colonial occupation along with her family.[4] At age twenty, Dell'Oro left Eritrea for Milan, where she planned to become a journalist, but worked mainly as a bookseller.[5] Her family and the influences of living under colonialism encouraged her to publish her first autobiographical novel, Asmara Addio in 1988.[4]

Dell'Oro's works targets adults, children and teenagers. Her books addresses, with different narrative forms, the pleasures and disadvantages of living under colonialism with mixed Italian and African cultures on a day-to-day basis. Her adult novels such as Asmara Addio shed light on the dual perspective of the colonial life seen with the eyes of colonists. Recurring issues in her works include racial, cultural and religious coexistence, apartheid, immigration and integration themes.[1][4][6]

Works

  • Asmara Addio (1988)
  • L'Abbandono: Una Storia Eritrea (1991)
  • Matteo e i Dinosauri (1993)
  • Il Fiore di Merara (1994)
  • La Pianta Magica (1995)
  • Mamme al Vento

References

  1. 1 2 "Erminia Dell'Oro: "Così racconto nelle scuole i piccoli migranti"". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. ↑ Marchese, R. "Uno sguardo sul colonialismo italiano: Gli scritti di erminia dell'oro". Ajol. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "From ABANDONMENT: AN ERITREAN STORY". Euro Lit Network. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 "Erminia Dell'Oro". www.encyclopediaofafroeuropeanstudies.eu (in Italian). Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Ponzanesi, Sandra (2004). Paradoxes of postcolonial culture : contemporary women writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian diaspora. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 1423740076. OCLC 62395526.
  6. ↑ Boca, Angelo Del (11 March 2015). La nostra Africa (in Italian). Neri Pozza Editore. ISBN 9788854509894.


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