The Mediterranean, or Where Africa Does (Not) Meet Italy: Andrea Segre's A Sud di Lampedusa (2006)
- Authors: Di Maio, A
- Publication year: 2013
- Type: Capitolo o Saggio (Capitolo o saggio)
- Key words: Mediterranean Studies; The Black Mediterranean; The "Burning"; Migrations Studies; Documentaries; Postcolonialism; Africa; Italy.
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/138572
Abstract
The essay studies the crossing (or "burning") of the hundred thousand Africans who have traversed the Mediterranean in the past decades to look for better life conditions in Europe, through an analysis of Andrea Segre's documentaries, in particular South of Lampedusa (2006).