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Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy
Graziella Parati
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Description for Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy
Hardback. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is about migrants’ lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan. At the core of the book is literature as written by migrants, members of a “second generation,” and a filmmaker who defines himself as native. It argues that the narrative authored by migrants, refugees, second generation women, and one “native Italian” perform a reparative reading of Italian spaces in order to engender reparative narratives. Eve Sedgwick wrote about our (now) traditional way of reading based on unveiling and on, mainly, negative affect. We are trained to tear the text apart, dig into it, and uncover the anxieties ... Read more
This book is about migrants’ lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan. At the core of the book is literature as written by migrants, members of a “second generation,” and a filmmaker who defines himself as native. It argues that the narrative authored by migrants, refugees, second generation women, and one “native Italian” perform a reparative reading of Italian spaces in order to engender reparative narratives. Eve Sedgwick wrote about our (now) traditional way of reading based on unveiling and on, mainly, negative affect. We are trained to tear the text apart, dig into it, and uncover the anxieties ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319555706
SKU
V9783319555706
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Ref
99-15
About Graziella Parati
Graziella Parati is Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College, USA. Her previous monographs include Italy and the Cultural Politics of WWI (2016), New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies (2012) and The Cultures of Italian Migration (2011).
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