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Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

Edited by Marie Orton; Graziella Parati and Ron Kubati - Contributions by Ashna Ali; Ubax Cristina Ali Farah; Basir Ahang; Adrian Bravi; Simone Brioni; Jennifer Burns; Ryan Calabretta-Sajder; Clarissa Clò; Daniele Comberiati; Marta Cariello; Lidia Curti; Vera Lúcia de Oliveira; Silvia Guslandi; Gëzim Hajdari; Ron Kubati; Gabriella Kuruvilla; Amara Lakhous; Eleanor Paynter; Fulvio Pezzarossa; Wendy Pojmann; Lidia Radi; Shirin Ramzanali Fazel; Lucia Re; Kevin Regan; Caterina Romeo; James Walker and Enrico Zammarchi

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity—individual and national—and belonging. It is also an affirmation of diversity. The editors of this volume have brought together articles that analyze the literature of migration as well as creative pieces by recognized authors who have a lived experience of migration. English speakers will find their own societal struggles with diversity mirrored in Italy’s colonial inheritance and its renewed nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and shifting national identity.The artists and scholars who have contributed to this book challenge national discourses, dehumanizations, and issues of race and gender. But many also seek to move beyond the negative and critical to claim belonging—especially national belonging—in the name of diversity as part of human experience. The chapters emphasize how individuals both reflect and enact societal change, and they foreground the inescapable fact that human differences and migration drive and shape societal identity in our world.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 302 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-68393-314-4 • Hardback • October 2021 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
978-1-68393-316-8 • Paperback • August 2023 • $42.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-68393-315-1 • eBook • October 2021 • $40.50 • (£30.00)
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / Italian, Literary Criticism / Poetry, Literary Collections / European / Italian

Marie Orton is professor of Italian at Brigham Young University.

Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language at Dartmouth College.

Ron Kubati, PhD., is an independent scholar and author.

Section I: Diversity in Italy

Poetry

Vera Lúcia de Oliveira

“I was among warm folk in a warm country” (Ero fra calda gente in un caldo paese)

Translated by Ashna Ali

Essay

Clarissa Clò and Enrico Zammarchi

“Stran(i)ero nella mia nazione”: Hip-Hop from Southern Alie-Nation to Afro-Italian Nation-Hood

Essay

Daniele Comberiati

Reading “Albania” in Italy: Reception of Elvira Dones’s Piccola guerra perfetta and Ron Kubati’s La via dell’eroe

Essay

Lucia Re

Migration, the Novel and the Power of Fear: A Dialogical Perspective from Baktin to Lakhous

Fiction

Amara Lakhous

“Ninth Wail” and “The Truth of Abdallah Ben Kadour,” from Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

Essay

Ryan Calabretta-Sajer

Gendering the “Giallo”: Gender Roles in the Opus of Amara Lakhous

Fiction

Ubax Cristina Ali Farah

“The Phoenix” (La Fenice)

Translated by Silvia Guslandi

Essay

Wendy Pojmann

Creativity as Feminist Practice: Intercultural Women’s Associations in Italy

Essay

Fulvio Pezzarossa

“Arriving Too Soon is a Mistake”

Amnesia in the Postcolonial Archive: The Antonaros Case

Fiction

Adrián Bravi

“When Jacopo da Fiori Watched the Monkeys in the Treetops” (Quando Jacopo da Fiori guardava la chioma degli alberi)

Translated by Kevin Regan-Maglione

Section II: Diversity of Diversity

Poetry

Basir Ahang

“Identity” (Identità)

Translated by Ashna Ali

Essay

Caterina Romeo

Defying the Chromatic Norm: Strategies of Invisibility and Italian Transdiasporic Blackness

Essay

Marta Cariello

Reconfiguring “la donna del Sud”: Trans-Mediterranean Narratives

Fiction

Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

“The Guest”

Essay

Simone Brioni

Questions of Authority and Literary Meticciato in Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la diaspora

Essay

Lidia Radi

Albania Mon Amour: Tales of Female Love and Duty in the Italian Writings of Vorpsi, Dones, and Ibrahimi

Poetry

Gezim Hajdari

“The Nails of Exile” (I chiodi dell’esilio)

Translated by James Walker

Essay

Lidia Curti

Beyond the Canon: Women’s Italian Writings of Migration

Essay

Jennifer Burns

Kinships: Relations of Care and Experiences of Locality in Transnational Italian Narrative

Fiction

Gabriella Kuruvilla

“The Two of Me” (Io siamo in due)

Translated by Eleanor Paynter

Essay

Ron Kubati

Translingual Literature and Multi-belonging

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

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Summary
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  • Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identity—individual and national—and belonging. It is also an affirmation of diversity. The editors of this volume have brought together articles that analyze the literature of migration as well as creative pieces by recognized authors who have a lived experience of migration. English speakers will find their own societal struggles with diversity mirrored in Italy’s colonial inheritance and its renewed nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and shifting national identity.The artists and scholars who have contributed to this book challenge national discourses, dehumanizations, and issues of race and gender. But many also seek to move beyond the negative and critical to claim belonging—especially national belonging—in the name of diversity as part of human experience. The chapters emphasize how individuals both reflect and enact societal change, and they foreground the inescapable fact that human differences and migration drive and shape societal identity in our world.

Details
Details
  • University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Pages: 302 • Trim: 6½ x 9½
    978-1-68393-314-4 • Hardback • October 2021 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
    978-1-68393-316-8 • Paperback • August 2023 • $42.99 • (£35.00)
    978-1-68393-315-1 • eBook • October 2021 • $40.50 • (£30.00)
    Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / Italian, Literary Criticism / Poetry, Literary Collections / European / Italian
Author
Author
  • Marie Orton is professor of Italian at Brigham Young University.

    Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language at Dartmouth College.

    Ron Kubati, PhD., is an independent scholar and author.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Section I: Diversity in Italy

    Poetry

    Vera Lúcia de Oliveira

    “I was among warm folk in a warm country” (Ero fra calda gente in un caldo paese)

    Translated by Ashna Ali

    Essay

    Clarissa Clò and Enrico Zammarchi

    “Stran(i)ero nella mia nazione”: Hip-Hop from Southern Alie-Nation to Afro-Italian Nation-Hood

    Essay

    Daniele Comberiati

    Reading “Albania” in Italy: Reception of Elvira Dones’s Piccola guerra perfetta and Ron Kubati’s La via dell’eroe

    Essay

    Lucia Re

    Migration, the Novel and the Power of Fear: A Dialogical Perspective from Baktin to Lakhous

    Fiction

    Amara Lakhous

    “Ninth Wail” and “The Truth of Abdallah Ben Kadour,” from Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

    Essay

    Ryan Calabretta-Sajer

    Gendering the “Giallo”: Gender Roles in the Opus of Amara Lakhous

    Fiction

    Ubax Cristina Ali Farah

    “The Phoenix” (La Fenice)

    Translated by Silvia Guslandi

    Essay

    Wendy Pojmann

    Creativity as Feminist Practice: Intercultural Women’s Associations in Italy

    Essay

    Fulvio Pezzarossa

    “Arriving Too Soon is a Mistake”

    Amnesia in the Postcolonial Archive: The Antonaros Case

    Fiction

    Adrián Bravi

    “When Jacopo da Fiori Watched the Monkeys in the Treetops” (Quando Jacopo da Fiori guardava la chioma degli alberi)

    Translated by Kevin Regan-Maglione

    Section II: Diversity of Diversity

    Poetry

    Basir Ahang

    “Identity” (Identità)

    Translated by Ashna Ali

    Essay

    Caterina Romeo

    Defying the Chromatic Norm: Strategies of Invisibility and Italian Transdiasporic Blackness

    Essay

    Marta Cariello

    Reconfiguring “la donna del Sud”: Trans-Mediterranean Narratives

    Fiction

    Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

    “The Guest”

    Essay

    Simone Brioni

    Questions of Authority and Literary Meticciato in Scrivere di Islam: Raccontare la diaspora

    Essay

    Lidia Radi

    Albania Mon Amour: Tales of Female Love and Duty in the Italian Writings of Vorpsi, Dones, and Ibrahimi

    Poetry

    Gezim Hajdari

    “The Nails of Exile” (I chiodi dell’esilio)

    Translated by James Walker

    Essay

    Lidia Curti

    Beyond the Canon: Women’s Italian Writings of Migration

    Essay

    Jennifer Burns

    Kinships: Relations of Care and Experiences of Locality in Transnational Italian Narrative

    Fiction

    Gabriella Kuruvilla

    “The Two of Me” (Io siamo in due)

    Translated by Eleanor Paynter

    Essay

    Ron Kubati

    Translingual Literature and Multi-belonging

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