Sud immaginari. Colonialità del potere, chicane ribelli, interferenze blues

ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH Sud immaginari’s journey through literature, visuality, and sound will conjure up several ‘Imaginary Souths’ that we’re going to visit with decolonial eyes; that is, bearing in mind that modernity is founded on the imbalances imposed by the colonial enterprise (Aníbal Quijano). Uneasy, restless, and Alter/Native textualities question the separations and subalternities between Northern and Southern worlds, with the Native American Ishi’s story framing the imbalance between the master and the wild man/savage (James Clifford). It continues with travels to the US-Mexico borderlands, where emerging epistemologies for an other Americanity have spread out (Gloria Anzaldúa, Guillermo Gómez Peña, José Saldívar); where the Virgen of Guadalupe becomes a scandal (Cherríe Moraga, Alma López and Sandra Cisneros); and where a young Chicana in the speculative Utopia of Marge Piercy travels between the future and the past. The book ends in the ghettos of an ‘imaginary bronx,’ between blaxploitation and cine-sceneggiata, where an Afro-Diasporic South not only inhabits Harlem but also Southern Italy, where Naples gives voice to its own black soul.