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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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
2017
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. All at One Point. The Unlikely Connections between Italy's Emigration, Immigration and (Post-)Colonialism
- Part I. Waters. Migrant Voyages and Ships from and to Italy. Aperture I: An Osean of Pre-Occupation and Possibilities: L'orda ; Crossing the Atlantic to Meet the Nation: The Emigration Ship in Mignonette's Songs and Crialese's Nuovomondo ; Overlapping Mediterranean Routes in Marra's Sailing Home: Ragusa's The Skin Between Us, and Tekle's Libera
- Part II. Houses. Multiethnic Residential Spaces as Living Archives of Pre-Occupation and Invention. Aperture II: A Multicultural Project in a National Square: The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio ; Displaced Italies and Immigrant "Delinquent" Spaces in Pariani's Argentinian Conventillos and Lakhous' Roman Palazzo ; Writing the Pasta Factory and the Boarding House as Transnational Homes: Public and Private Acts in Melliti's Pantanella and Mazzucco's Vita
- Part III. Workplaces. A Creative Re-Occupation of Labor Spaces against Exploitation ; Aperture III: Labor on the Move: Rodari's Construction Workers and Kuruvilla's Babysitter ; Edification between Nation and Migration in Cavanna's Les Ritals and Adascalitei's "Il giorno di San Nicola" ; The Circular Routes of Colonial and Post-Colonial domestic work: Però's and Ciaravino's Alexandria and Ghermandi's "The Story of Woizero Bekelech and Signor Antonio"
- Conclusion. Italy as a Laboratory for Imagi-Nation: The Citizenship Law between In and Outbound Flows.
