Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity

by Cristina Lombardi-Diop, C. Romeo (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349448173
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Series:	Italian and Italian American Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert J. C. Young, New York University, USA

Sandro Mezzadra, University Of Bologna, Italy
Sanra Ponzanesi, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University, Usa
Miguel Mellino, University Of Naples "L'orientale"
Alessandro Triulzi, Università Di Napoli "L'orientale"
Derek Duncan, University Of Bristol, UK
Giovanna Trento, University Of The Western Cape, South Africa
Roberto Derobertis, University Of Bari, Italy
Sabrina Marchetti, European University Institute In Florence, Italy
Barbara De Vivo, University Of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto, Auburn University, USA
Áine O'Healy, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Isabella Clough Marinaro, The American University Of Rome, Italy
Alessandro Jedlowsk, University Of Naples "L'orientale"
Shelleen Greene, University Of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Alessandro Portelli, University Of Rome "La Sapienza"
Clarissa Clo, San Diego State University, USA

Table of Contents

1. The Italian Postcolonial; Robert J.C. Young PART I: EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL TRAJECTORIES 2. The New European Migratory Regime and the Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Racism; Sandro Mezzadra 3. The Postcolonial Turn in Italian Studies: European Perspectives; Sandra Ponzanesi 4. The Emigrant Post-'Colonia' in Contemporary Immigrant Italy; Teresa Fiore 5. De-provincializing Italy: Notes on Race, Racialization and Italy's Coloniality; Miguel Mellino PART II: SHARED MEMORIES, CONTESTED PROXIMITIES 6. Hidden Faces, Hidden Histories: Contrasting Voices of Postcolonial Italy; Alessandro Triulzi 7. Shooting the Colonial Past in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Effects of Deferral in Good Morning Aman; Derek Duncan 8. Italians DOC? Posing and Passing from Giovanni Finati to Amara Lakhous; Barbara Spackman 9. Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea: Subalternity, Grace, Nostalgia and the 'Rediscovery' of Italian Colonialism in the Horn of Africa; Giovanna Trento 10. Southerners, Migrants, Colonized: A Postcolonial Perspective on Carlo Levi's Cristo si è fermato a Eboli and Southern Italy Today; Roberto Derobertis PART III: INTIMATIONS AND INTIMACIES OF RACE 11. Postracial/Postcolonial Italy; Cristina Lombardi-Diop 12. Blaxploitation Italian Style: Exhuming and Consuming the Colonial Black Venus in 1970s Cinema in Italy; Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto 13. Screening Intimacy and Racial Difference in Postcolonial Italy; Áine O'Healy 14. Race Evaporations: Representing Blackness in African Italian Postcolonial Literature; Caterina Romeo PART IV: POSTNATIONAL AESTHETICS, TRANSCULTURAL PRODUCTION 15. On the Periphery of Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Italy and the Emergence of an Intercultural Aesthetics; Alessandro Jedlowski 16. Envisioning Postcolonial Italy: Haile Gerima's Adwa: An African Victory and Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats; Shelleen Greene 17. "Roma Forestiera": A Project on Migrant Music in Rome; Alessandro Portelli 18. Hip Pop Italian-Style: The Postcolonial Imagination of Second Generation Authors in Italy; Clarissa Clò

Editorial Reviews

"An important contribution to the field of postcolonial studies, this volume offers wide-ranging and provocative analyses of the intricately interconnected legacies of colonialism, emigration, and global migration in Italy. Mapping a landscape of postcolonial studies that is unique to Italy in terms of its regimes of race, gender, citizenship and cultural transformations, Postcolonial Italy engenders radically new and challenging critiques of hegemonic British/Indian/USA centered formulations of postcolonial studies." - Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism Without Borders, Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (2003)

"An essential book for any scholar of modern Italy, but in fact for anybody interested in the perduring effects of colonialism in today's globalized world, Postcolonial Italy has the rare merit of casting a bold look not only at the silenced history of Italian colonialism overseas, but also at that chapter of Italy's internal colonialism known as 'the southern question.' The contributions, drawing from postcolonial studies, cultural studies, race theory, and gender studies, will be of compelling interest to readers in a wide range of fields." - Roberto Dainotto, Professor of Italian and of Literature, Duke University, USA

"This is an important collection of critical essays which engages head-on with the challenging inheritance of colonialism. Today, it is the return of this negated past in representations of race, racism and the much-maligned migrant that poses the principal political challenge of a heterogeneous, postcolonial Italy." - Iain Chambers, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale,' Italy

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