Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies

Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
ISBN-10
0823274349
ISBN-13
9780823274345
Category
History
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2017-05-23
Publisher
Fordham Univ Press
Author
Teresa Fiore

Description

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.

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