10th anniversary issue
Issue 18 (Spring 2026) of From the European South celebrates the tenth anniversary of the journal, which began in 2016 as a spinoff of the postcolonialitalia research project at the University of Padova. Over the years, FES has developed into a solid platform for post- and decolonial critical thinking and writing from the Global South, taking the planet and the future as its necessary horizons. This issue evidences the journal’s roots in postcolonial studies, literatures and cultures, its dialogues with decolonial and critical race studies, and ongoing interest in the arts and activism. It also encourages the quest for a new critical language involving affect and sensibilities that might help us to work through the opacity of a war-ridden world that is difficult to articulate.
Table of Contents
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Contents
[pp. i-ii]10 years of writing and critical commitment in the postcolonial humanities
Annalisa Oboe[pp. 3-9]
Essays
Seawork, language, coffee and tomatoes
Iain Chambers[pp. 11-21]Prospero and Caliban in Palestine: Anglosphere, English Canon and Zionist Dehumanization
Luigi C. Cazzato[pp. 22-34]Arti, antirazzismo e accademia: tra vecchie criticità e nuove riscritture, il caso di Research as Vocality a Napoli
Alessandra Ferlito[pp. 35-48]From Discourse to Praxis: Decoloniality, Knowledge Production, and Everyday Resistance in the European South
Yodit Estifanos Afewerki, Ariam Tekle, Mikal Woldu[pp. 49-64]Echi da ዶግዓሊ/Dogali. Tessere memorie, intrecciare storie. Co-progettare per ri-significare e depotenziare un monumento coloniale
Giulia Grechi, Gioia Toscani De Col[pp. 65-81]The Right to Appear: Sexual Dissidence and Postcolonial Visibility in Revathi’s The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story
Angelo Monaco[pp. 82-94]Translating Black Lives Matter (and celebrating FES)
Pietro Deandrea[pp. 95-102]
Reviews
Attraversare le Americhe: compresenze forzate, nuove epistemologie e flussi culturali transnazionali
Donatella Marcatajo[pp. 104-109]A New World Italian Discourse in Brazil
Barbara Gori[pp. 110-114]Not an elsewhere but a deep entanglement
Michela Gulia[pp. 115-117]From Arcadia to the “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”: The Return of Ruinenlust and the Rise of Eco-Gothic Anxiety in the Anthropocene
Federica Campaiola[pp. 118-122]Struggling with the Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Formation in an Age of Crisis
Francesca Furlan[pp. 123-127]Chi ha paura di decostruire il proprio razzismo?
Brandon Breen[pp. 128-132]Sulle macerie di Gaza: sopravvivenza di una colonia
Marina De Chiara[pp. 133-136]Per Gaza: le lezioni di umanità e logos di Tomaso Montanari
Luigi C. Cazzato[pp. 137-141]