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Title

Postcolonial Italy : challenging national homogeneity / edited by Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo.

Publication

• New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• ©2012

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Additional Authors

• Lombardi-Diop, Cristina.
• Romeo, Caterina.

Description

xiii, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Italian and Italian American studies

Uniform Title

Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subjects

• Italy > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Postcolonialism > Italy
• National characteristics, Italian
• Italy > Colonies > History
• Power (Social sciences) > Italy
• Colonies in motion pictures
• Italy > Race relations
• Italy > Intellectual life > 21st century
• Colonies in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Paradigms of postcoloniality in contemporary Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo -- The Italian postcolonial / Robert J.C. Young -- Part 1. European and global trajectories -- The new European migratory regime and the shifting patterns of contemporary racism / Sandro Mezzadra -- The postcolonial turn in Italian studies : European perspectives / Sandra Ponzanesi -- The emigrant post-"colonia" in contemporary immigrant Italy / Teresa Fiore -- De-provincializing Italy : notes on race, racialization, and Italy's coloniality / Miguel Mellino -- Part II. Shared memories, contested proximities -- Hidden faces, hidden histories : contrasting voices of postcolonial Italy / Alessandro Triulzi -- Shooting the colonial past in contemporary Italian cinema : effects of deferral in Good morning Aman / Derek Duncan -- Italians DOC : posing and passing from Giovanni Finati to Amara Lakhous / Barbara Spackman -- Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea : subalternity, grace, nostalgia, and the "rediscovery" of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa / Giovanna Trento -- Southerners, migrants, colonized : a postcolonial perspective on Carlo Levi's Cristo si è fermato a Eboli and southern Italy today / Roberto Derobertis --
• Part III. Intimations and intimacies of race -- Postracial/postcolonial Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop -- Blaxploitation Italian style : exhuming and consuming the colonial Black Venus in 1970s cinema in Italy / Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto -- Screening intimacy and racial difference in postcolonial Italy / Áine O'Healy -- Racial evaporations : representing Blackness in African Italian postcolonial literature / Caterina Romeo -- Part IV. Postnational aesthetics, transcultural production -- On the periphery of Nollywood : Nigerian video filmmaking in Italy and the emergence of an intercultural aesthetics / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Envisioning postcolonial Italy : Haile Gerima's Adwa : an African victory and Isaac Julien's Western Union : small boats / Shelleen Greene -- "Roma Forestiera" : a project on migrant music in Rome / Alessandro Portelli -- Hip pop Italian-style : the postcolonial imagination of second generation authors in Italy / Clarissa Clò.

Call Number

JFE 13-1127

ISBN

• 9781137281456 (hbk.)
• 1137281456 (hbk.)

LCCN

2012042070

OCLC

795759312

Title

Postcolonial Italy : challenging national homogeneity / edited by Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Copyright Date

©2012

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Italian and Italian American studies

Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lombardi-Diop, Cristina.

Romeo, Caterina.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-1127