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Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity—individual and national—and belonging. It is also an affirmation of diversity. The editors of this volume have brought together articles that analyze the literature of migration as well as creative pieces by recognized authors who have a lived experience of migration. English speakers will find their own societal struggles with diversity mirrored in Italy’s colonial inheritance and its renewed nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and shifting national identity.The artists and scholars who have contributed to this book challenge national discourses, dehumanizations, and issues of race and gender. But many also seek to move beyond the negative and critical to claim belonging—especially national belonging—in the name of diversity as part of human experience. The chapters emphasize how individuals both reflect and enact societal change, and they foreground the inescapable fact that human differences and migration drive and shape societal identity in our world.

Table of Contents

Section I: Diversity in Italy

Poetry
Vera Lúcia de Oliveira
“I was among warm folk in a warm country” (Ero fra calda gente in un caldo paese)
Translated by Ashna Ali

Essay
Clarissa Clò and Enrico Zammarchi
“Stran(i)ero nella mia nazione”: Hip-Hop from Southern Alie-Nation to Afro-Italian Nation-Hood

Essay
Daniele Comberiati
Reading “Albania” in Italy: Reception of Elvira Dones's Piccola guerra perfetta and Ron Kubati's La via dell'eroe

Essay
Lucia Re
Migration, the Novel and the Power of Fear: A Dialogical Perspective from Baktin to Lakhous

Fiction
Amara Lakhous
“Ninth Wail” and “The Truth of Abdallah Ben Kadour,” from Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Essay
Ryan Calabretta-Sajer
Gendering the “Giallo”: Gender Roles in the Opus of Amara Lakhous

Fiction
Ubax Cristina Ali Farah
“The Phoenix” (La Fenice)
Translated by Silvia Guslandi

Essay
Wendy Pojmann
Creativity as Feminist Practice: Intercultural Women's Associations in Italy

Essay

Product details

Published 26 Oct 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 302
ISBN 9781683933144
Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions 237 x 163 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Marie Orton

Marie Orton is professor of Italian at Brigham You…

Anthology Editor

Graziella Parati

Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professo…

Anthology Editor

Ron Kubati

Ron Kubati, PhD., is an independent scholar and au…

Contributor

Ashna Ali

Contributor

Basir Ahang

Contributor

Adrian Bravi

Contributor

Simone Brioni

Contributor

Jennifer Burns

Jennifer Burns is associate professor of Italian a…

Contributor

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

Dr. Cerise L. Glenn is associate professor in the…

Contributor

Clarissa Clò

Contributor

Marta Cariello

Contributor

Lidia Curti

Contributor

Silvia Guslandi

Contributor

Gëzim Hajdari

Contributor

Ron Kubati

Ron Kubati, PhD., is an independent scholar and au…

Contributor

Amara Lakhous

Contributor

Eleanor Paynter

Contributor

Wendy Pojmann

Contributor

Lidia Radi

Contributor

Lucia Re

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Kevin Regan

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Caterina Romeo

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James Walker

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