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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455485603321

Autore

Parati Graziella

Titolo

Migration Italy : the art of talking back in a destination culture / / Graziella Parati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4426-2672-0

1-4426-5541-0

1-282-02912-6

9786612029127

1-4426-7726-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

850.9/3552

Soggetti

Italian literature - History and criticism

Immigrants' writings, Italian - History and criticism

Immigrants in literature

Motion pictures - Italy - History and criticism

Emigration and immigration law - Italy

Immigrants in motion pictures

Culture in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Strategies of 'Talking Back' -- 2. Minor Literature, 'Minor Italy' -- 3. Cinema and Migration: 'What' and 'Who' Is a Migrant -- 4. The Laws of Migration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a destination for many people from poor or war-torn countries seeking a better life in a stable environment. Graziella Parati's Migration Italy



examines immigration to Italy in the past twenty years, and explores the processes of cultural hybridization that have occurred.Working from a cultural studies viewpoint, Parati constructs a theoretical framework for discussing Italy as a country of immigration. She gives special attention to immigrant literature, positing that it functions as an act of resistance, a means to talk back to the laws that regulate the lives of migrants. Parati also examines Italian cinema, demonstrating how native and non-native filmmakers alike create parallels between old and new migrations, complicating the definitions of sameness and difference.These definitions and the complexities inherent in the different cultural, legal, and political positions of Italy's people are at the heart of Migration Italy, a unique work of immense importance for understanding society in both modern-day Italy and, indeed, the entire European continent.