Interview _ Pietro Deandrea
Pietro Deandrea has, for many years, been researching into literature and the arts connected to contemporary migrations. His books include New Slaveries in Contemporary British Literature and Visual Arts: The Ghost and the Camp (Manchester University Press, 2015); Fertile Crossings: Metamorphoses of Genre in Anglophone West African Literature (Rodopi, 2002); and; L'occhio della terra (Le Lettere, 2006), his translation into Italian of Niyi Osundare 's poetry collection, The Eye of The Earth . In this interview, Deandrea talks about the arts, literature, migration and Journeys in Translation. How would you describe the work that you do? I teach English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Torino, Italy (Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne). My aim is to make students enjoy the peculiar power of literature to incarnate ethical values. My ideal wish is also to help them develop their autonomous skills in decoding literary t