Poetry in Motion: Transnational Sinophone Poets across Italy and China

In Chapter 8, Valentina Pedone shifts the discussion to Europe by considering some amateur Sinophone authors who are active across Italy and China. Relying on a framework of Mobility Studies and Sinophone Studies, Pedone scrutinizes the translingual and transnational textual practices of these Sino-Italian writers who publish their works in both countries, as well as online, performing their hyphenated identities in accordance with their place-based readerships. Pedone gives an account of the lyrical quandary emerging from the conflict between nostalgia for the mother(land) and “obsession” with the other, engendered by the fear of exclusion.