Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

Marie Orton; Graziella Parati; Ron Kubati

doi:10.5771/9781683933151

Summary

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 struggles with diversity mirrored in Italy’s colonial inheritance and its renewed nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and shifting national identity.The artists and scholars who have contributed to this book challenge national discourses, dehumanizations, and issues of race and gender. But many also seek to move beyond the negative and critical to claim belonging—especially national belonging—in the name of diversity as part of human experience. The chapters emphasize how individuals both reflect and enact societal change, and they foreground the inescapable fact that human differences and migration drive and shape societal identity in our world.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-68393-314-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-68393-315-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 291
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1. Ero fra calda gente in un caldo paese / I was among warm folk in a warm country No access
2. “Stran(i)ero nella mia nazione” No access
3. Reading “Albania” in Italy No access
4. Migration, the Novel, and the Power of Fear No access
5. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio No access
6. Gendering the Giallo No access
7. The Phoenix No access
8. Creativity as a Feminist Practice No access
9. “Arriving Too Soon Is a Mistake” No access
10. When Jacopo da Fiore Watched the Monkeys in the Treetops No access
1. Le Mandorle Amare / The Bitter Almonds No access
2. Defying the Chromatic Norm No access
3. Reconfiguring “la donna del Sud” No access
4. The Guest No access
5. Questions of Authoriality and Literary Meticciato in Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la diaspora No access
6. Albania Mon Amour No access
7. Chiodi dell’esilio / The Nails of Exile No access
8. Beyond the Canon No access
9. Kinships No access
10. The Two of Me No access
11. Translingual Literature and Multi-Belonging No access
Index No access Pages 277 - 282
About the Contributors No access Pages 283 - 291