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Table of Contents Introduction The Notion of the Mother Tongue Postcolonial Gramsci Immanent Grammar: Language, Terra, Body Outline of the Book A Note on this Language Chapter 1. The Language Question and the Mother Tongue: Unification, Expansion, Exclusion A Missing Mother Tongue Unifying Italy: The Language Question Expanding Italy: Colonialism and Fascism A Living Mother Tongue: Technologies and Varieties Postcolonial Literature and the Mother Tongue Conclusion: A Mother Tongue with an Accent Chapter 2. Gramsci and the Mother Tongue: Immanent Grammar, Subalternity, Molecular Changes Gramsci the Linguist Immanent Grammar Immanent Grammar and Subalternity Immanence: Language Immanence: Terra Immanence: Body Conclusion: Rethinking the Mother Tongue with Gramsci Chapter 3. Rethinking the Mother Tongue Today: From Gramsci to Postcolonial Literature From Gramsci to Future Future is a Verb Grammar and Racism in “Nassan Tenga” Terra and Names in “Il mio nome” Bodies and Meanings in “Abbiamo pianto un fiume di risate” Conclusion: Language, Terra, Body Conclusion: The Mother Tongue as Immanent Grammar The Mother Tongue in Italy |