Prise d’espace ? Patriarcat, féminisme et transgression autour de Con il vento nei capelli de Salwa Salem

This article is aimed on the analysis of Con il vento nei capelli (“With the wind in one’s head”), an autobiography of Salwa Salem that is among the first works of migrant literature in Italy. The interesting point of this autobiography is the space of autonomy and of identity, as it is perceived by the novel’s author. This search for private space is placed, as we’ll try to proof, in between the tradition and modernity, patriarchal living and feminism, the choice that the author has to make between staying at home and migrating elsewhere