Pre-occupied spaces remapping Italy's transnational migrations and colonial legacies /
"This book rethinks Italy's formation and development on a trans-national map through cultural analysis of travel, living and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic and musical texts. By demonstrating how today's immigration in Italy is pre-occupied by its past emigration and col...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
2017
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary: | "This book rethinks Italy's formation and development on a trans-national map through cultural analysis of travel, living and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic and musical texts. By demonstrating how today's immigration in Italy is pre-occupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations"-- " By linking Italy's long history of emigration to all continents in the world, contemporary transnational migrations directed toward it, as well as the country's colonial legacies, Fiore's book poses Italy as a unique laboratory to rethink national belonging at large in our era of massive demographic mobility. Through an interdisciplinary cultural approach, the book finds traces of globalization in a past that may hold interesting lessons about inclusiveness for the present. Fiore rethinks Italy's formation and development on a transnational map through cultural analysis of travel, living, and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic, and musical texts. By demonstrating how immigration in Italy today is preoccupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations. "-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 251 pages ) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823274352 0823274357 9780823274376 0823274373 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |
