La cultura dell’altro. Il ballo tondo di Carmine Abate

Carmine Abate is an author who represents a quite new orientation in Italian literature, the so called migrant literature. His literary works started to be appreciated fairly recently – only at the beginning of the 21st c. The text, basing on the research assumptions of imagology defined by Nora Moll, focuses on the representation of the image of culture as practiced by the small community of arbëresh, living in a small village in Calabria called Hora. What is taken under analysis is the first novel by Abate, Il ballo tondo (1991), whose action is permeated with elements typical for arbëresh culture.