Pre-Occupied Spaces Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies

by Fiore, Teresa

• ISBN13: 9780823274338
• ISBN10: 0823274330
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-05-23
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

Author Biography

Teresa Fiore is Theresa and Lawrence R. Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction. All at One Point: The Un/likely Connections between Italy's Emigration, Immigration and (Post-)Colonialism

Part I. Waters: Migrant Voyages and Ships from/to Italy

Aperture I: An Osean of Pre-Occupation and Possibilities: The Show L'orda

Chapter 1. Crossing the Atlantic to Meet the Nation: The Emigration Ship in Mignonette's Songs and Crialese's Nuovomondo

Chapter 2. Overlapping Mediterranean Routes in Marra's Sailing Home,
Ragusa's The Skin Between Us, and Tekle's Libera

Part II. Houses: Multi-Ethnic Residential Spaces as Living Archives of Pre-Occupation and Invention

Aperture II: A Multi-Cultural Project in a National Square: The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio

Chapter 3. Displaced Italies and Immigrant "Delinquent" Spaces in Pariani's Argentinian Conventillos and Lakhous' Roman Palazzo

Chapter 4. Writing the Pasta Factory and the Boarding House as Trans-National Homes: Public and Private Acts in Melliti's Pantanella and Mazzucco's Vita

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

Chapter 5. Edification between Nation and Migration in Cavanna's Les Ritals and Adascalitei's "Il giorno di San Nicola"

Chapter 6: The Circular Routes of Colonial and Post-Colonial Homecare: Però's and Ciaravino's Alexandria and Ghermandi's "The Story of Woizero Bekelech and Signor Antonio"

Conclusions. Italy as an Imagi-Nation Laboratory: The Citizenship Law between In and Outbound Flows