La città postcoloniale di Gabriella Kuruvilla: plurilinguismo e <br>multifocalità nella letteratura italiana contemporanea  <br>

in: Scrittrici nomadi Passare i confini tra lingue e culture , a cura di Stefania De Lucia

Milano, fin qui tutto bene (Milano, so far so good), a novel by Gabriella
Kuruvilla, was published in 2012. All the characters of the novel go
beyond the boundaries of languages and culture. Plurilingualism and
multifocality are the strategies adopted by the author to represent the
ongoing transformations of a postcolonial city, as a result of an
increasing presence of migrant people. The city of Milan is divided
by a strict colour line, which produces forms of exclusion or
differential inclusion, as well as unexpected forms of neighbourhood.
Every chapter is narrated by a different character, who speaks their
own language, lives in a particular area of the city, and offers their
own personal version of the story, but they never meet, if not for
economic reasons. According to the author, the only possible
relationship between men and women – or between people of
different age, class or colour – are based on power, oppression and
exploitation.
The analysis of the novel focuses on urban spaces, multiculturalism,
and gender relations, in order to assess if their representation can
question the presumed nature and normality of gender and identity.