Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature write by Chiara Giuliani. This book was released on 2021-08-27. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar spaces of belonging. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature suggests “home spaces” as a possible lens to examine these specific places and a series of practices enacted by their inhabitants in order to feel at home. Drawing on a wide array of sources, this book focuses on the role played by memory in creating transnational connections between present and past locations and on how these connections shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ identity.
Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture
Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture write by Chiara Giuliani. This book was released on 2022-11-18. Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach. The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors’ obsession, to symbols of loss, displacement, and violence. By bringing into dialogue the work of specialists in ethnology, art history, architecture, and design; literature, languages, cultures, and heritage studies, this volume considers how displaced memory – the memory of refugees, migrants, and their descendants; of those who have moved from the countryside to the city; of those who have faced personal upheaval and profound social change; those who have been forced into exile or experienced major personal or collective loss – can become embodied in material culture. This book is important reading to those interested in cultural and social history and cultural studies.
Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain
Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain write by Manuela D'Amore. This book was released on 2023-10-29. Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose, verse, and drama. This book shows how authors both recount the history of the migrant community in the period 1880-1980 while creatively experimenting with hybrid forms of expression and blending words with visuals. Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain discusses topical issues like migration and social integration, cultures and foods in transition, as well as plurilingualism. The book pays special attention to discussions of the horrors of the Second World War – especially on the tragedy of the Arandora Star (2nd July 1940) – to show this literary community’s political commitments. More importantly, it will begin to fill the void left by a critical tradition which has only appreciated the northern American and Australian branches of Italian writing.
Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy
Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy write by Valentina Pedone. This book was released on 2023-11-12. Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In three periods in the twentieth century, new patterns of physical mobilities and cultural contact were established between the two countries which were either novel at the time of their emergence or impactful on subsequent periods. The first two chapters provide overviews of writings by Italians in China and by Chinese in Italy in the twentieth century. The remaining chapters cover: Republican China’s relationships with Italy and Italian Fascist colonialism in China during the 1920s–1930s; Italian travelers to China during the Cold War from the 1950s to the 1970s; migrations between China and Italy during the 2000s–2010s. In analyzing these cultural mobilities, this book opens a new line of inquiry in Chinese-Italian Cultural Studies, which has been dominated by historical study, and contributes a significant case study to the scholarship on global cultural mobilities.
Transcultural Italies
Transcultural Italies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transcultural Italies write by Charles Burdett. This book was released on 2020-12-01. Transcultural Italies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of Italian culture stems from multiple experiences of mobility and migration, which have produced a range of narratives, inside and outside Italy. This collection interrogates the dynamic nature of Italian identity and culture, focussing on the concepts and practices of mobility, memory and translation. It adopts a transnational perspective, offering a fresh approach to the study of Italy and of Modern Languages.
