Full Description
Transnational Italian Studies is specifically targeted at a student audience and is designed to be used as a key text when approaching the disciplinary field of Italian studies. It allows the study of Italian culture to be construed and practised not simply as the inquiry into a national tradition but as the study of the interaction of cultural practices both within Italy itself and in those parts of the world that have witnessed the extent of Italian mobility. The text argues that Italian culture needs to be considered in a transnational/transcultural perspective and that an understanding of linguistic and cultural translation underlies all approaches to the study of Italian culture in a global context. Contributions deploy a range of methodological approaches to understand and illustrate how language operates, how culture inhabits and constitutes public and private space, how notions of time operate within people's lives, and the multiple ways in which people experience a sense of personhood. Chapters stretch from the medieval period to the present and demonstrate how transnational Italian culture can be critically addressed through the examination of carefully chosen examples.
Contributors: Alessandra Diazzi, Andrea Rizzi, Barbara Spadaro, Charles Burdett, Clorinda Donato, David Bowe, Derek Duncan, Donna Gabaccia, Eugenia Paulicelli, Fabio Camilletti, Giuliana Muscio, Jennifer Burns, Loredana Polezzi, Marco Santello, Monica Jansen, Naomi Wells, Nathalie Hester, Serena Bassi, Stefania Tufi, Teresa Fiore and Tristan Kay.
Contents
Introduction, Charles Burdett and Loredana Polezzi
Part One: Language
1. Translation and Transnational Creative Practices in Italian Culture
Loredana Polezzi
2. Renaissance Translators, Transnational Literature, and Intertraffique
Andrea Rizzi
3. Linguistic landscapes of urban Italy: perspectives on transnational identities
Stefania Tufi
4. Transnational Flows and Translanguaging Repertoires: Exploring Multilingualism and Migration in Contemporary Italy
Naomi Wells
5. Speaking Transnationally from the Italian Diaspora
Marco Santello
Part Two: Spatiality
1. Transnationalism and the Epic Tradition in Baroque Italian Travel Literature
Nathalie Hester
2. 'La fuga dei cervelli', the Grand Tour, and the circulation of knowledge: Transnational Italian culture in the long eighteenth century
Clorinda Donato
3. Italians in Hollywood
Giuliana Muscio
4. Italy and Italian Studies in the Transnational Space of Migration and Colonial Routes
Teresa Fiore
5. Mobile homes: transnational subjects and the (re)creation of home spaces
Jennifer Burns
Part Three: Temporality
1. Making Premodern Time: Guittone, Dante, and Petrarch
David Bowe
2. Italian Renaissance Costume Books: Imagining Nation in an Increasingly Transnational World
Eugenia Paulicelli
3. Translating People and Places between Sicily and the United States, 1880-1960
Donna Gabaccia
4. Addressing the Representation of the Italian Empire and its Afterlife
Charles Burdett
5. Transnational 'Italian' Comics: Mediating Memory in the 21st Century
Barbara Spadaro
Part Four: Subjectivity
1. Dante and the Transnational Turn
Tristan Kay
2. Conscience, Consciousness, The Unconscious: The Italian Subject and Psychoanalysis
Fabio Camilletti and Alessandra Diazzi
3. Speaking in class: accented voices in transnational Italian cinema
Derek Duncan
4. Transnational Subjectivities and Victimhood in Italy after the 2001 Genoa G8 Summit
Monica Jansen
5. Queer Translanguagers Versus Inclusive Language: Translingual Practices and Queer Italian Studies
Serena Bassi
