A casa que levamos em nós: reflexões memorialísticas sobre o romance "minha casa é onde estou" de Igiaba Scego

Abstract

This paper’s aim analyze the relationship between individual and collective memory on the novel “My Home is where I am” (La mia casa e? dove sono) by Igiaba Scego. The work portrays, in eight chapters, the first twenty years of the narrator’s life. Six of them, named after a Rome spot, linked to memories which placed a landmark on her relationship with the city, while mixing memories about their parents’ exile in Italy and about Somalia itself, the motherland of their family. Igiaba Scego writes for the media in Italy and is a human rights activist, highlighting his involvement and issues related to the cause of refugees. The purpose of this paper is also to talk about the author and her work, which offers important contributions to think about the memorialistic processes of people who go through experiences marked by rupture and the search for their place in the world. For that, the main references used for this work are: Halbwachs (2006) and Hall (2003).