Postcolonial Italy Challenging National

This path-breaking volume addresses the postcolonial condition as one of the main factors that affects lives and shapes cultures in contemporary Italy. The collection identifies the common, postcolonial context in which a wide array of discourses, social practices, and cultural production are finding expression in the peninsula. The innovative approach of the book is not limited to the exploration of the relationship between former colonizers and colonized, nor is it confined to a rereading of colonial history and culture; rather, it considers how the postcolonial paradigm formulates new epistemologies, while at the same time examining the relationships of power created by colonialism and reproduced and reinforced in contemporary postcolonial societies.

Cristina Lombardi-Diop is Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Women's Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago, USA. She is editor and translator of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Moving the Center (2000) and editor of Gabriella Ghermandi's Regina di fiori e di perle (2007). Her essays on white femininity and colonialism, African Italian diasporic literature, and space and migration have appeared in edited collections and journals such as Italian Culture, Romance Language Annuals, Afriche e Orienti, and Interventions. Caterina Romeo is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Rome 'Sapienza,' Italy. She is the author of Narrative tra due sponde: Memoir di italiane d'America (2005) and has co-edited a double monographic issue of Dialectical Anthropology on contemporary migrations in Europe and a monographic issue of tutteStorie on Italian American women authors. She has translated into Italian the work of numerous Italian American women writers, among them Louise DeSalvo's Vertigo (2006) and Kym Ragusa's The Skin between Us (2008).

The Italian Postcolonial / Robert J.C. YoungPart I. European and Global TrajectoriesThe New European Migratory Regime and the Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Racism / Sandro MezzadraThe Postcolonial Turn in Italian Studies: European Perspectives / Sandra PonzanesiThe Emigrant Post-'Colonia' in Contemporary Immigrant Italy / Teresa FioreDe-provincializing Italy: Notes on Race, Racialization and Italy's Coloniality / Miguel MellinoPart II. Shared Memories, Contested ProximitiesHidden Faces, Hidden Histories: Contrasting Voices of Postcolonial Italy / Alessandro TriulziShooting the Colonial Past in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Effects of Deferral in Good Morning Aman / Derek DuncanItalians DOC? Posing and Passing from Giovanni Finati to Amara Lakhous / Barbara Spackman Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea: Subalternity, Grace, Nostalgia and the 'Rediscovery' of Italian Colonialism in the Horn of Africa / Giovanna Trento Southerners, Migrants, Colonized: A Postcolonial Perspective on Carlo Levi's Cristo si è fermato a Eboli and Southern Italy Today / Roberto DerobertisPart III. Intimations and Intimacies of RacePostracial/Postcolonial Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop Blaxploitation Italian Style: Exhuming and Consuming the Colonial Black Venus in 1970s Cinema in Italy / Rosetta Giuliani CaponettoScreening Intimacy and Racial Difference in Postcolonial Italy / Áine O'HealyRace Evaporations: Representing Blackness in African Italian Postcolonial Literature / Caterina RomeoPart IV. Postnational Aesthetics, Transcultural ProductionOn the Periphery of Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Italy and the Emergence of an Intercultural Aesthetics / Alessandro JedlowskiEnvisioning Postcolonial Italy: Haile Gerima's Adwa: An African Victory and Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats / Shelleen Greene"Roma Forestiera": A Project on Migrant Music in Rome / Alessandro PortelliHip Pop Italian-Style: The Postcolonial Imagination of Second Generation Authors in Italy / Clarissa Clò

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Postcolonial Italy Challenging National Homogeneity

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