Postcolonial Italy
Subtitle: challenging national homogeneity
By: edited by Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo
Edition: First Palgrave Macmillan paperback edition.
Series: Italian and Italian American studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781137375049
Subjects: Race relations; Colonies in motion pictures; Intellectual life; Italian National characteristics; History; Colonies in literature; Colonies; Power (Social sciences); Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Paradigms of postcoloniality in contemporary Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo; title: The Italian postcolonial / Robert J.C. Young; title: Part 1. European and global trajectories; title: The new European migratory regime and the shifting patterns of contemporary racism / Sandro Mezzadra; title: The postcolonial turn in Italian studies : European perspectives / Sandra Ponzanesi; title: The emigrant post-"colonia" in contemporary immigrant Italy / Teresa Fiore; title: De-provincializing Italy : notes on race, racialization, and Italy's coloniality / Miguel Mellino; title: Part II. Shared memories, contested proximities; title: Hidden faces, hidden histories : contrasting voices of postcolonial Italy / Alessandro Triulzi; title: Shooting the colonial past in contemporary Italian cinema : effects of deferral in Good morning Aman / Derek Duncan; title: Italians DOC : posing and passing from Giovanni Finati to Amara Lakhous / Barbara Spackman; title: Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea : subalternity, grace, nostalgia, and the "rediscovery" of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa / Giovanna Trento; title: Southerners, migrants, colonized : a postcolonial perspective on Carlo Levi's Cristo si è fermato a Eboli and southern Italy today / Roberto Derobertis; title: Part III. Intimations and intimacies of race; title: Postracial/postcolonial Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop; title: Blaxploitation Italian style : exhuming and consuming the colonial Black Venus in 1970s cinema in Italy / Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto; title: Screening intimacy and racial difference in postcolonial Italy / Áine O'Healy; title: Racial evaporations : representing Blackness in African Italian postcolonial literature / Caterina Romeo; title: Part IV. Postnational aesthetics, transcultural production; title: On the periphery of Nollywood : Nigerian video filmmaking in Italy and the emergence of an intercultural aesthetics / Alessandro Jedlowski; title: Envisioning postcolonial Italy : Haile Gerima's Adwa : an African victory and Isaac Julien's Western Union : small boats / Shelleen Greene; title: "Roma Forestiera" : a project on migrant music in Rome / Alessandro Portelli; title: Hip pop Italian-style : the postcolonial imagination of second generation authors in Italy / Clarissa Clò.