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):

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries)Honorable Mention for the Howard R. Marraro Prize 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction. All at One Point: The Unlikely Connections between Italy’s Emigration, Immigration, and (Post)Colonialism

Aperture I: An Osean of Pre-Occupation and Possibilities: L’orda

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

Aperture III. Labor on the Move: Rodari’s Construction Workers and Kuruvilla’s Babysitter

Conclusion. Italy as a Laboratory for Imagi-Nation: The Citizenship Law between Inbound and Outbound Flows

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Image Credits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-7435-7

OCLC:

1178769841