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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821341003321

Titolo

Postcolonial Italy : challenging national homogeneity / / edited by Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

ISBN

1-283-94735-8

1-137-28146-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Italian and Italian American studies

Altri autori (Persone)

Lombardi-DiopCristina

RomeoCaterina

Disciplina

945.092

Soggetti

Postcolonialism - Italy

National characteristics, Italian

Power (Social sciences) - Italy

Colonies in literature

Colonies in motion pictures

Italy Race relations

Italy Colonies History

Italy Intellectual life 20th century

Italy Intellectual life 21st century

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

Paradigms of postcoloniality in contemporary Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo -- The Italian postcolonial / Robert J.C. Young -- Part 1. European and global trajectories -- The new European migratory regime and the shifting patterns of contemporary racism / Sandro Mezzadra -- The postcolonial turn in Italian studies : European perspectives / Sandra Ponzanesi -- The emigrant post-"colonia" in contemporary immigrant Italy / Teresa Fiore -- De-provincializing Italy : notes on race, racialization, and Italy's coloniality / Miguel Mellino -- Part II. Shared memories, contested proximities -- Hidden faces, hidden histories : contrasting voices of postcolonial Italy / Alessandro Triulzi -- Shooting the colonial past in contemporary Italian cinema : effects of deferral in Good morning Aman / Derek Duncan -- Italians



DOC : posing and passing from Giovanni Finati to Amara Lakhous / Barbara Spackman -- Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea : subalternity, grace, nostalgia, and the "rediscovery" of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa / Giovanna Trento -- Southerners, migrants, colonized : a postcolonial perspective on Carlo Levi's Cristo si e fermato a Eboli and southern Italy today / Roberto Derobertis --

Part III. Intimations and intimacies of race -- Postracial/postcolonial Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop -- Blaxploitation Italian style : exhuming and consuming the colonial Black Venus in 1970s cinema in Italy / Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto -- Screening intimacy and racial difference in postcolonial Italy / Aine O'Healy -- Racial evaporations : representing Blackness in African Italian postcolonial literature / Caterina Romeo -- Part IV. Postnational aesthetics, transcultural production -- On the periphery of Nollywood : Nigerian video filmmaking in Italy and the emergence of an intercultural aesthetics / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Envisioning postcolonial Italy : Haile Gerima's Adwa : an African victory and Isaac Julien's Western Union : small boats / Shelleen Greene -- "Roma Forestiera" : a project on migrant music in Rome / Alessandro Portelli -- Hip pop Italian-style : the postcolonial imagination of second generation authors in Italy / Clarissa Clo.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, anthropological fieldwork, and race, gender, diaspora, and urban studies.