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  • Islam and Me

    Narrating a Diaspora

    by Shirin Ramzanali Fazel ...
    Series series Other Voices of Italy
    Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia’s former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion–where, even today, she and her children must seemingly prove they are Italian.In Islam and Me, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Reversing the Gaze

    What If the Other Were You?

    by Geneviève Makaping, Caterina Romeo ...
    Translated by Victoria Offredi Poletto, Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi ...
    Series series Other Voices of Italy
    Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly recounts her experiences—first across Africa and then as a migrant Black woman in Italy—Makaping describes acts of racist ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

    by Ron Kubati, Ashna Ali, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah, Basir Ahang, Adrian Bravi, Simone Brioni, Jennifer Burns, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder0, Clarissa Clò1, Daniele Comberiati2, Marta Cariello3, Lidia Curti4, Vera Lúcia de Oliveira5, Silvia Guslandi6, Gëzim Hajdari7, Gabriella Kuruvilla8, Amara Lakhous9, Fulvio Pezzarossa0, Wendy Pojmann1, Lidia Radi2, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel3, Lucia Re4, Kevin Regan5, Caterina Romeo6, James Walker7, Enrico Zammarchi8, Eleanor Paynter9 ...
    Series series
    Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity—individual and national—and belonging. It is also an affirmation of diversity. The editors of this volume have brought together articles that analyze the literature of migration as well as creative pieces by recognized authors who have a lived experience of migration. English speakers will find their own societal ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Somali Within

    Language, Race and Belonging in ‘Minor’ Italian Literature

    by Brioni Simone ...
    The recent histories of Italy and Somalia are closely linked. Italy colonized Somalia from the end of the 19th century to 1941, and held the territory by UN mandate from 1950 to 1960. Italy is also among the destination countries of the Somali diaspora, which increased in 1991 after civil war. Nonetheless, this colonial and postcolonial cultural encounter has often been neglected. Critically ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Italian Science Fiction

    The Other in Literature and Film

    by Simone Brioni, Daniele Comberiati ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and feminist studies to explore how migration, colonialism, multiculturalism, and racism have been represented in genre ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000

    Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression

    by Patrizia Sambuco, Simone Brioni, Ann Hallamore Caesar, Eleanor David, Donatella De Ferra, Margherita Ganeri, Cristina Gragnani, Rhianedd Jewell, Giuliana Morandini, Catherine Ramsey-Portolano0, Anne Urbancic1, Rita Wilson2, Lisa Sarti3 ...
    Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on topics of spatial and cultural boundaries, border identities, and expressions of excluded identities. This book discusses works by known and less-known writers as well as by some new writers: Sibilla ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Horn of Africa and Italy

    Colonial, Postcolonial and Transnational Cultural Encounters

    Edited by Simone Brioni, Shimelis Gulema ...
    Series Book 6 - New Comparative Criticism
    This multidisciplinary volume analyses key themes and topics related to the cultural encounters between Italy and its former colonies in the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia). The multi-faceted relations between the Horn of Africa and Italy were initiated during the colonial period but have also been shaped more recently through migration. In eleven chapters by experts in comparative ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

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  • The Cultures of Italian Migration

    Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives

    Edited by Graziella Parati, Anthony Julian Tamburri ...
    The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective "Italian" to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like "home," "identity," "subjectivity," and "otherness" eschew stereotyping. This volume demonstrates that interpretations of old migrations are necessary ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies

    Definition, Theory, and Accented Practices, Volume 1

    Edited by Graziella Parati ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
    New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies. Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices is a collection of essays that identifies a number of different approaches in cultural studies and in Italian cultural studies in particular. It highlights that history of cultural studies and new developments in the field as well focuses on practicing cultural studies with essays devoted to Italian ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Migration Italy

    The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture

    by Graziella Parati ...
    In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a destination for many people from poor or war-torn countries seeking a better life in a stable environment. Graziella Parati's Migration Italy examines immigration to Italy in the past twenty years, and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy

    Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film

    by Graziella Parati ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about migrants’ lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan. At the core of the book is literature as written by migrants, members of a “second generation,” and a filmmaker who defines himself as native. It argues that the narrative authored by migrants, refugees, second generation women, and one “native Italian” perform a reparative reading of Italian spaces in order to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Crossings

    The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity

    by Iain Chambers ...
    The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a vibrant ... Read more

    $22.29 USD