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

• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (colour); digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 304.8
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration - Social aspects; Multilingualism - Europe - Social aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Emigration and immigration Social aspects; Europe Civilization
• Soggetto non controllato: Calais; Ceuta Melilla; Cultural Studies; Lampedusa Sicily; Migrant Literature; Migration; Multilingualism; Public Art; Social Mobility; Spanish Muslims
• Persona (resp. second.): SoltererHelen; JoosVincent
• 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Migrants shaping Europe, past and present
• ISBN: 9781526166173; 1526166178; 9781526166180; 1526166186; 9781526166166
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910727268303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II