Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy: Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9783319555706 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str.

Graziella Parati

Opis

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 engender reparative narratives. Migrants writers seem to employ both positive and negative affects in defining the past, present, and future of the spaces they inhabit.

Spis treści

Introduction.- 1. Transitive Spaces.- 2. Affective Places and Areas of Limited Access.- 3. Emotional Maps in Igiaba Scego’s Definitions of Italian Colonial Space.- 4. Disaffective Citizenship.- Conclusion.-

O autorze

Graziella Parati is Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College, USA. Her previous monographs include Italy and the Cultural Politics of WWI (2016), New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies (2012) and The Cultures of Italian Migration (2011).