Il libro presenta contributi di vari autori (Y. Bezrucka, Franco De Faveri, Elio Franzini, Sergio Giovanazzi, Antonio Scaglia) sui temi indicati dal titolo. Vi apparel mio saggio: “Regionalismo e antiregionalismo: Thomas Hardy e V.S. Naipaul”, pp. 99-116, che esamina le differenti visioni dei due autori sul concetto di identità etnica.The collection comprises my essay on Thomas Hardy and V.S Naipaul's different attitudes towards identity politics. Hardy sees the issue of identity as the necessary mediation between a clash of inside/outside cultural values, whereas Naipaul downplays all notions of a geopolitical identification of people with spatial homelands, which in postcolonial subjects would cause only disorientation and disquiet. He therefore champions the notion of a cultural, country of the mind, identity politics which cannot be identified with spatial, geopolitical locations.