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Record Nr.

UNISA996543162103316

Titolo

Migrants shaping Europe, past and present : multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures / / edited by Helen Solterer, Vincent Joos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9781526166173

1526166178

9781526166180

1526166186

9781526166166

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (colour); digital file(s)

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Multilingualism - Europe - Social aspects

Europe Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Europe Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I: A premodern cultural history -- 1 Astrolabe: from 'mathematical jewel' to cultural connector -- Pedro M. P. Raposo<br><br>Part II: Migrating in Spanish -- 2 The expulsion of the moriscos: still more questions than answers James S. Amelang -- 3 Translating migrant precarity in Rachid Nini's Diario de un ilegal Anna Tybinko -- Part III: Migrating in Italian -- 4 "The world is my homeland": exile and migration from Ibn Hamdis to Dante Akash Kumar -- 5 Superman in Italy: the power of the refugee artist Saskia Ziolkowski -- 6 Porta d'Europa: monumentality, entropy and migration on Lampedusa Tenley Bick -- Part IV: Migrating in French -- 7 Calais enclave: fictions for locking in and opening up Helen Solterer -- 8 Calais campscape: a short history of immigration deterrence at the French-British border Vincent Joos and Eric Leleu -- Part V: Arts of migration -- 9 In Transit: arts of migration around Europe The Nasher Museum Collective -- 10 Cornered Raquel Salvatella de Prada -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures, arts and social cultures, in early modern times and today. Iberia/Maghreb, Sicily/Lampedusa and Calais provide key examples for composing this new chapter in cultural history.