Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

Marie Orton, Graziella Parati, Ron Kubati (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2021
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-68393-314-4 (ISBN)

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Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives brings together creative literary works and scholarly articles. Both address the changes and challenges to identity formation in an Italy marked by the migrations, populism, nationalism, and xenophobia, and analyze diversity and the affirmation of belonging.

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.

Marie Orton is professor of Italian at Brigham Young University. Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language at Dartmouth College. Ron Kubati, PhD., is an independent scholar and author.

Section I: Diversity in Italy

Poetry
Vera Lúcia de Oliveira
“I was among warm folk in a warm country” (Ero fra calda gente in un caldo paese)
Translated by Ashna Ali

Essay
Clarissa Clò and Enrico Zammarchi
“Stran(i)ero nella mia nazione”: Hip-Hop from Southern Alie-Nation to Afro-Italian Nation-Hood

Essay
Daniele Comberiati
Reading “Albania” in Italy: Reception of Elvira Dones’s Piccola guerra perfetta and Ron Kubati’s La via dell’eroe

Essay
Lucia Re
Migration, the Novel and the Power of Fear: A Dialogical Perspective from Baktin to Lakhous

Fiction
Amara Lakhous
“Ninth Wail” and “The Truth of Abdallah Ben Kadour,” from Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Essay
Ryan Calabretta-Sajer
Gendering the “Giallo”: Gender Roles in the Opus of Amara Lakhous

Fiction
Ubax Cristina Ali Farah
“The Phoenix” (La Fenice)
Translated by Silvia Guslandi

Essay
Wendy Pojmann
Creativity as Feminist Practice: Intercultural Women’s Associations in Italy

Essay

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2021
Co-Autor	Ashna Ali, Ubax Cristina Ali Farah
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 237 mm
Gewicht	744 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68393-314-1 / 1683933141
ISBN-13	978-1-68393-314-4 / 9781683933144
Zustand	Neuware