Transcultural Italies Mobility, Memory and Translation
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Biografisk notat
Charles Burdett is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Durham Loredana Polezzi is Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies at Stony Brook University. Barbara Spadaro is Lecturer in Italian History and Culture at the University of Liverpool.Transcultural Italies Mobility, Memory and Translation
“<i>Transcultural Italies</i> brings together a series of essays that interrogate the inherently dynamic nature of Italian identity and culture to advance the transnational turn that is presently reshaping the field of Italian Studies."<br />Stephanie Malia Hom, University of California, Santa Barbara
“<i>Transcultural Italies</i> adds new dimensions to the study of human mobilities and suggests a path-breaking approach to the cultural study of Italian migrations, from the movement of people and objects through space and memory to Italian influences on global culture.”<br />Maddalena Tirabassi, Centro Altreitalie sulle Migrazioni Italiane, Turin
The essays in Transcultural Italies follow the multiple trajectories of this complex history and of its representations. They do so by focusing on the key concepts and practices of mobility, memory and translation. Taken together, they represent a contrapuntal series of case studies that offers a fresh perspective on the study of modern and contemporary Italy. The essays in the volume explore the meanings that ‘transnational’ and ‘transcultural’ assume when applied to the notion of Italian culture.
Contributors: Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Derek Duncan, Chiara Giuliani, Viviana Gravano, Giulia Grechi, Margaret Hills de Zárate, Eliana Maestri, Valerie McGuire, Loredana Polezzi, Barbara Spadaro, Ilaria Vanni, Naomi Wells, Rita Wilson
Charles Burdett, Loredana Polezzi and Barbara Spadaro
Section 1: Traces
The Transnational Biography of ‘British’ Place: Local and Global Stories in the Built Environment
Jennifer Burns
Porteña Identity and Italianità: Language, Materiality and Transcultural Memory in Valparaíso’s Italian Community
Naomi Wells
Italian Identity, Global Mediterranean: Tourism and Cultural Heritage in Post-Colonial Rhodes
Valerie McGuire
Italy and Africa: Post-War Memories of Life in Eritrea and Ethiopia
Charles Burdett
Section 2: Art, Objects and Artefacts
‘The Path that Leads Me Home’: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Arts of Transnationalizing
Derek Duncan
Moving Objects: Memory and Material Culture
Margaret Hills de Zárate
Visualizing Spatialization at a Crossroads between Translation and Mobility: Italian Australian Artist Jon Cattapan’s Cityscapes
Eliana Maestri
An Exhibition about Italian Identities Beyond Borders
Viviana Gravano and Giulia Grechi
Section 3: Mobilities of Memory
Pitigliano, Maryland? Travelling Memories and Moments of Truth
Barbara Spadaro
Misplaced Plants: Migrant Gardens and Transculturation
Ilaria Vanni
The Chinese Community in Italy, the Italian Community in China: Economic Exchanges and Cultural Difference
Chiara Giuliani
Writing the Neighbourhood: Literary Representations of Language, Space and Mobility
Rita Wilson
From Substitution to Co-presence: Translation, Memory, Trace and the Visual Practices of Diasporic Italian Artists
Loredana Polezzi
“<i>Transcultural Italies</i> brings together a series of essays that interrogate the inherently dynamic nature of Italian identity and culture to advance the transnational turn that is presently reshaping the field of Italian Studies."<br />Stephanie Malia Hom, University of California, Santa Barbara
“<i>Transcultural Italies</i> adds new dimensions to the study of human mobilities and suggests a path-breaking approach to the cultural study of Italian migrations, from the movement of people and objects through space and memory to Italian influences on global culture.”<br />Maddalena Tirabassi, Centro Altreitalie sulle Migrazioni Italiane, Turin
The essays in Transcultural Italies follow the multiple trajectories of this complex history and of its representations. They do so by focusing on the key concepts and practices of mobility, memory and translation. Taken together, they represent a contrapuntal series of case studies that offers a fresh perspective on the study of modern and contemporary Italy. The essays in the volume explore the meanings that ‘transnational’ and ‘transcultural’ assume when applied to the notion of Italian culture.
Contributors: Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Derek Duncan, Chiara Giuliani, Viviana Gravano, Giulia Grechi, Margaret Hills de Zárate, Eliana Maestri, Valerie McGuire, Loredana Polezzi, Barbara Spadaro, Ilaria Vanni, Naomi Wells, Rita Wilson
Charles Burdett, Loredana Polezzi and Barbara Spadaro
Section 1: Traces
The Transnational Biography of ‘British’ Place: Local and Global Stories in the Built Environment
Jennifer Burns
Porteña Identity and Italianità: Language, Materiality and Transcultural Memory in Valparaíso’s Italian Community
Naomi Wells
Italian Identity, Global Mediterranean: Tourism and Cultural Heritage in Post-Colonial Rhodes
Valerie McGuire
Italy and Africa: Post-War Memories of Life in Eritrea and Ethiopia
Charles Burdett
Section 2: Art, Objects and Artefacts
‘The Path that Leads Me Home’: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Arts of Transnationalizing
Derek Duncan
Moving Objects: Memory and Material Culture
Margaret Hills de Zárate
Visualizing Spatialization at a Crossroads between Translation and Mobility: Italian Australian Artist Jon Cattapan’s Cityscapes
Eliana Maestri
An Exhibition about Italian Identities Beyond Borders
Viviana Gravano and Giulia Grechi
Section 3: Mobilities of Memory
Pitigliano, Maryland? Travelling Memories and Moments of Truth
Barbara Spadaro
Misplaced Plants: Migrant Gardens and Transculturation
Ilaria Vanni
The Chinese Community in Italy, the Italian Community in China: Economic Exchanges and Cultural Difference
Chiara Giuliani
Writing the Neighbourhood: Literary Representations of Language, Space and Mobility
Rita Wilson
From Substitution to Co-presence: Translation, Memory, Trace and the Visual Practices of Diasporic Italian Artists
Loredana Polezzi