Teresa Boschin ed Eletta Presern: identità e alterità nelle testimonianze di due friulane emigrate
Teresa Boschin e Eletta Presern: Identity and diversity in two testimonies by two Friulian migrants

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to concentrate on the most intimate and sincere testimonies, in the form of diaries, letters and memoirs, of two Friulians – Teresa Boschin (1903-2003) and Eletta Presern (1928-?) – who lived or experienced the abroad after the Second World War. Their texts are available on the website “Italiani all’estero. I diari raccontano” (Italians abroad. The diaries tell). Through the investigative lens of the concept of social identity, we want to probe the individual experience, asserting it as an experiential referent. The analysis of the interaction between identity, diversity and culture is a necessary approach for the understanding of the I and the Other as well as the identity (trans)formation in the complex and elaborate process of the encounter-clash with the Otherness. The interaction of dualistic dimensions – old/new, internal/external, home/non-home, family/foreign – contributes to the redefinition of identity which, in turn, in its fluid continuity, becomes a bridge between the poles, between the I / us and the Other.

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