title: Between Comparative and Postcolonial Studies: the Past and Future of Italian Approaches to East Slavic Literary Intersections
abstract: This contribution reflects on the state of comparative studies devoted to East Slavic literatures in Italy. Between the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, Italian scholars of Slavic studies and the editors of Italian journals have made a number of interesting proposals on the subject. However, hyper-specialization has often hampered efforts to put theory into practice. I foreground some of these important methodological contributions by Italian scholars on comparative Slavic stud
journal: Studi Slavistici