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Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy

Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film

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Authors:
  1. Graziella Parati

    1. Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

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  • Uses critical tools created in sociology and geography, specifically on affect and space, resulting in a book that is interdisciplinary in content and scope
  • Ranges across both literature and film
  • Takes a timely look at the meaning of citizenship in the context of migration

Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Graziella Parati
    Pages 1-36

  3. Transitive Spaces

    • Graziella Parati
    Pages 37-85

  4. Areas of Limited Access and Affective Places

    • Graziella Parati
    Pages 87-141

  5. Emotional Maps and Affective Citizenship

    • Graziella Parati
    Pages 143-181

  6. Disaffective Citizenship

    • Graziella Parati
    Pages 183-230

  7. Conclusion

    • Graziella Parati
    Pages 231-237

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 239-264
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About this book

This book is about migrants’ lives in urban space, in particular Rome and Milan. At the core of the book is literature as written by migrants, members of a “second generation,” and a filmmaker who defines himself as native. It argues that the narrative authored by migrants, refugees, second generation women, and one “native Italian” perform a reparative reading of Italian spaces in order to engender reparative narratives. Eve Sedgwick wrote about our (now) traditional way of reading based on unveiling and on, mainly, negative affect. We are trained to tear the text apart, dig into it, and uncover the anxieties that define our age. Migrants writers seem to employ both positive and negative affects in defining the past, present, and future of the spaces they inhabit. Their recuperative acts of writing, constitute powerful models of changes in/on place. As they look at Italian exclusionary spaces, they also rewrite them into a present whose transitiveness allows to imagine a process of citizenship and belong constructed from below.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

    Graziella Parati

About the author

Graziella Parati is Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College, USA. Her previous monographs include Italy and the Cultural Politics of WWI (2016), New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies (2012) and The Cultures of Italian Migration (2011). 

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