Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture - Couverture rigide

Parati, Graziella

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802039243 ISBN 13 : 9780802039248

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2005

Synopsis

In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a destination for many people from poor or war-torn countries seeking a better life in a stable environment. Graziella Parati's Migration Italy examines immigration to Italy in the past twenty years, and explores the processes of cultural hybridization that have occurred. Working from a cultural studies viewpoint, Parati constructs a theoretical framework for discussing Italy as a country of immigration. She gives special attention to immigrant literature, positing that it functions as an act of resistance, a means to talk back to the laws that regulate the lives of migrants. Parati also examines Italian cinema, demonstrating how native and non-native filmmakers alike create parallels between old and new migrations, complicating the definitions of sameness and difference. These definitions and the complexities inherent in the different cultural, legal, and political positions of Italy's people are at the heart of Migration Italy, a unique work of immense importance for understanding society in both modern-day Italy and, indeed, the entire European continent.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Graziella Parati is a professor in the Department of French and Italian, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Dartmouth College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802039243
• ISBN 13: 9780802039248
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible