Research Catalog

Title

Shifting and shaping a national identity : transnational writers and pluriculturalism in Italy today / edited by Grace Russo Bullaro, Elena Benelli.

Publication

Leicester : Troubador, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bullaro, Grace Russo
• Benelli, Elena

Description

xiii, 229 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This volume targets key issues in the controversies that revolve around migration in contemporary Italy, adopting an interdisciplinary approach to works of fiction and non-fiction. It aims to move the discourse forward from migration to transmigration; from nationalism to transnationalism. All too frequently we read stories about boats full of hopeful refugees capsizing off the coast of Italy, or of hundreds of migrants being returned to their own countries after unsuccessful attempts to enter Europe. Who are these people, and what has led them to take such desperate actions? What are their goals and how do they fare if they do enter Europe? What is the high price of reaching for socio-economic salvation in a country whose laws discriminate against migrants and where the autochthonous population too frequently holds them in contempt? Another important issue to consider is that some of these migrants are not running from disastrous circumstances, but are merely looking for a better life. Ironically, some of them encounter adversity for the first time in Italy. From the perspective of the host country, a crucial question also arises: how does the unrelenting influx of migrants impact the already tense socio-economic climate of a country with such limited resources?--

Series Statement

Troubador Italian studies

Subject

• Immigrants > Italy
• Italy > Emigration and immigration

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / by Amara Lakhous -- Introduction: Redefining migration literature: towards a transnational and translingual alternative -- Section 1: Defining and re-defining identity -- Building an identity in the new Italian pluricultural society: competing theories on Europe's future and Lakhous' Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio / Grace Russo Bullaro -- Memory, belonging and the right for representation: questions of home in Kaha Mohamed Aden's Fra-intendimenti / Simone Brioni -- Come diventare italiani in 24 ore: reconfiguring Italian identity in Laila Wadia's narrative / Elena Benelli -- Engendering ontological cartographies: Igiaba Scego's reading of otherness / Gregoria Manzin -- Section 2: Breaking the boundaries: hybridity and transnationalism -- Fulvio Tomizza's "Eènza": hybridity as origin / Marianna Deganutti -- Mother tongue: identity in the translingual and transnational narratives of Carmine Abate and Cristina Ali Farah / Stephanie Love -- The translingual poetic subject: Gëzim Hajdari's Corpo presente/Trup i pranishëm / Anita Pinzi -- Section 3: Reconfiguring the canon -- Writing as an act of love: the works of Haidar Hafez / Gerardo Papalia -- Reinterpretazione degli spazi urbani nella letteratura italiana della migrazione / Vera Horn -- Letteratura di viaggio tra Tahar Lamri e Younis Tawfik / Mahmoud Jaran -- Italian literature becomes nomad: metamorphosis from within/without / Piera Carroli and Vivian Gerrand.

ISBN

• 9781783063789 (pbk.)
• 1783063785 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 883515178
• SCSB-10749630

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library