ABSTRACT
This chapter explains Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's vague definition of political concern in minor literature, by interpreting it in Somali Italian literature as a response to racism. Somali Italian literature envisions a specific chronotope, or 'the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature’. The double setting of Il latte e buono, both in the time of colonialism in Somalia and in the 1990s in Italy, shows that racism is not generated from ignorance, but from an idea about African people that has been constructed throughout history. The influence of the colonial past over the present and the double cultural belonging and unbelonging that it might generate for people of Somali origins in Italy is crucial in Cristina Ubah Ali Farah's Madre piccola. The criticism of Italian colonialism in Oltre Babilonia frequently represents Somalis as mere victims who lack self-consciousness and are not able to determine their own future.
