Entanglements. Postcolonial Transtextual Dialogues

The Summer School aims to build a dialogue "between and beyond" literary texts, between and beyond the various souls of the postcolonial (and decolonial) to the point of involving environmentalism, queer studies, posthuman thought, ecofeminism, trying to free up new possibilities for understanding the "contemporary extreme".  

Starting from the reflection on the literary text, but also on the postcolonial cultural object in a broad sense, which by its very nature invokes transdisciplinarity and collaboration between different knowledges, the aim is to equip the participants with useful tools to put our participation in the "story" of globalization in an adequate critical perspective.  

The 2026 edition will be dedicated to the theme of "Postcolonial Horrors", exploring horror as an aesthetic, political and epistemological symbol with which postcolonial literatures stage traumatic memories of colonization, identity tensions, diasporic movements and the re-emergence of the phantasmal within global modernity. The intent is to read horror not only as a genre, but as a critical and deconstructive tool capable of destabilizing ethnocentric categories of subjectivity, body, sovereignty and knowledge.