Pre-Occupied Spaces : : Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies / / Teresa Fiore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Fiore, Teresa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Studies in Italian America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies CategoryWinner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries)Honorable Mention for the Howard R. Marraro PrizeBy 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. All at One Point: The Unlikely Connections between Italy's Emigration, Immigration, and (Post)Colonialism -- Part I. Waters: Migrant Voyages and Ships from and to Italy -- Aperture I: An Osean of Pre-Occupation and Possibilities: L'orda -- Part II. Houses: Multiethnic Residential Spaces as Living Archives of Pre-Occupation and Invention -- Part II. Houses: Multiethnic Residential Spaces as Living Archives of Pre-Occupation and Invention -- Part III. Workplaces: A Creative Re-Occupation of Labor Spaces against Exploitation -- Aperture III. Labor on the Move: Rodari's Construction Workers and Kuruvilla's Babysitter -- Conclusion. Italy as a Laboratory for Imagi-Nation: The Citizenship Law between Inbound and Outbound Flows -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Image Credits