LEADER 05663oam 2200769 450 001 9910645894703321 005 20240215162438.0 010 $a9783031100437$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a3031100433$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031100420 010 $z3031100425 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-10043-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7179475 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7179475 035 $a(CKB)26027651000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-10043-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926027651000041 100 $a20230117d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInterrupted narratives and intersectional representations in Italian postcolonial literature /$fCaterina Romeo 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 225 1 $aItalian and Italian American Studies,$x2635-294X 311 08$aPrint version: Romeo, Caterina Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031100420 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1 Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Survey -- 2 Gender and its Intersections -- 3 Outside of the Chromatic Norm: Questions of Race, Blackness, Visibility, Italianness and Citizenship -- 4 Politics of (Re)Location: Geographies of Diaspora and New Urban Mappings. 330 $a?Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature is a tour-de-force from one of the leading scholars in the field. Romeo argues that rethinking the concepts of Italian identity and culture is necessary in order to highlight the transnational nature of cultural formations, and that adopting a postcolonial and decolonial approach to those concepts is an equally urgent task. Her deft, comprehensive overview of Italian postcolonial literature and accomplished thematic analysis of an astonishing number of texts make this book essential reading for students and scholars of Italian worldwide. It constitutes a significant contribution to the ongoing reconceptualization of Italian Studies and to the reshaping of cultural understandings of italianità.? -Emma Bond, author of Writing Migration through the Body Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature is a tribute to one of the most historically significant, culturally incisive, and artistically revitalizing literary and cultural phenomena that have developed in Italy in recent decades. With a new introduction, this expanded English translation of Riscrivere la nazione: La letteratura italiana postcoloniale (2018) exposes the colonial imaginaries that still permeate contemporary Italian culture and examines multiple counternarratives authored by postcolonial writers, artists, and intellectuals. Connecting diverse histories of migration that implicate Italy, including incoming migrations from many parts of the world, colonialism, and periodic waves of emigration, this volume also looks outward to a more diffuse postcolonial condition characterizing Europe at present. Adopting an intersectional perspective, this study analyzes literary and cinematic representations of gender, race, color, and space, thus arguing for a reconceptualization of Italian identity and contributing to a redefinition of national literature as well as to the decolonization of Italian society and culture. Caterina Romeo is Associate Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, where she teaches Literary Theory, Gender Studies, and Migration Studies. She is the author of Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale (2018) and Narrative tra due sponde: Memoir di italiane d'America (2005). 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