Introduction: Race as narration: studies of Italian women's writings since unification
Grazia Deledda's narrative negotiations with the racialization of Sardinian character
The tropics of race in the land of Cockayne
The irreducible individual and the ethics of writing in Natalia Ginzburg's Lessico famigliare
"We are stories of stories in history": re-imagining community as narrative in Regina Di Fiori e di Perle by Gabriella Ghermandi
Conclusions: The persistent past: haunting as metaphor for racism in texts from Deledda to Ghermandi.