Pre-occupied spaces : remapping Italy's transnational migrations and colonial legacies / Teresa Fiore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiore, Teresa, author.

Series:

Critical studies in Italian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italy--Emigration and immigration.

Italy.

Emigration and immigration.

Italy--Colonies.

Colonies.

Transnationalism.

Italian colonies.

Physical Description:

ix, 251 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2017.

Summary:

" 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. "-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction. All at One Point: The Un/likely Connections between Italy's Emigration, Immigration and (Post-)Colonialism

Part I. Waters: Migrant Voyages and Ships from/to Italy

Aperture I: An Osean of Pre-Occupation and Possibilities: The Show L'orda

Chapter 1. Crossing the Atlantic to Meet the Nation: The Emigration Ship in Mignonette's Songs and Crialese's Nuovomondo

Chapter 2. Overlapping Mediterranean Routes in Marra's Sailing Home,

Ragusa's The Skin Between Us, and Tekle's Libera

Part II. Houses: Multi-Ethnic Residential Spaces as Living Archives of Pre-Occupation and Invention

Aperture II: A Multi-Cultural Project in a National Square: The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio

Chapter 3. Displaced Italies and Immigrant "Delinquent" Spaces in Pariani's Argentinian Conventillos and Lakhous' Roman Palazzo

Chapter 4. Writing the Pasta Factory and the Boarding House as Trans-National 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

Chapter 5. Edification between Nation and Migration in Cavanna's Les Ritals and Adascalitei's "Il giorno di San Nicola"

Chapter 6: The Circular Routes of Colonial and Post-Colonial Homecare: Però's and Ciaravino's Alexandria and Ghermandi's "The Story of Woizero Bekelech and Signor Antonio"

Conclusions. Italy as an Imagi-Nation Laboratory: The Citizenship Law between In and Outbound Flows.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823274321

0823274322

9780823274338

0823274330

OCLC:

952154335