Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy -- latest issue of California Italian Studies now available

Laura E. Ruberto Announcement
Announcement Type
Journal
Subject Fields
Immigration & Migration History / Studies, Italian History / Studies, European History / Studies, American History / Studies, Borderlands

It is with great pleasure that we announce the publication of the latest volume  of California Italian Studies on the theme of “Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy”--full Table of Contents and links here below.

Please share with your students, colleagues, and all others who may be interested. The journal is online and open access to all: https://escholarship.org/uc/ismrg_cisj/9/1

 

Co-edited by Claudio Fogu, Stephanie Malia Hom, and Laura E. Ruberto, this volume explores how borders and borderlessness give rise to imaginaries that challenge our understandings of Italy, Italianness, and Italians. The contributions are organized along three border imaginaries—geography, genre, politics—and together advance the ongoing transnational and diasporic turn in Italian Studies.

 

Editing our volume in these times of COVID-19, confronted as we all are with a borderlessness far more ominous than the borderless imaginaries interrogated in  these articles, has been a challenge. But, as we write in our “Prefatory Note,” the pandemic “has also become an occasion for Italians within the diaspora to increase their lines  of  communication with  those  who  have  stayed  behind” and for those in Italy to “reimagine their borders while  affirming  a  shared  sense  of identity.” These cultural responses have inspired us to complete our volume and publish it while we all digest the reverberations of grief and trauma that this virus has brought in our lives.

 

 

California Italian Studies, Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy

Vol. 9, Issue 1

https://escholarship.org/uc/ismrg_cisj/9/1

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Aine O’Healy, A Tribute to Marguerite Waller

Claudio Fogu, Stephanie Malia Hom, Laura E. Ruberto, Prefatory Note: Borderless Italy in the Age of the Coronavirus

Claudio Fogu, Stephanie Malia Hom, Laura E. Ruberto, Introduction to Volume 9, Issue 1: Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy

 

BORDER IMAGINARIES: GEOGRAPHIES

Gabriele Montalbano, “The Making of Italians in Tunisia: A Biopolitical Colonial Project (1881-1911)”

Arianna Fognani, “(R)esistenze in conflitto nella narrativa di Anna Messina e Fausta Cialente ambientata ad Alessandria d’Egitto.”

Lucia Re and Kelly Roso, “A Mediterranean Woman Writer from Naples to Tangier: Female Storytelling as Resistance in Elisa Chimenti.”

Luigi Cazzato, “Italia come Africa e Africa come Italia: movimenti migratori, confini reali, espansioni immaginarie da S.T. Coleridge a Erri De Luca.”

Federica Di Blasio, “Passeurs: Narratives of Border Crossing in the Western Alps.”

Alessandro Boccolini, “Viaggio e viaggiatori italiani nel Seicento: relazioni odeporiche per una nuova geografia del vecchio continente.”

Rachel Haworth and Laura Rorato, “Memory, Identity and Migrant Generations: Articulating Italianità in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Northern England through the Case of

Kingston upon Hull.”

 

BORDER IMAGINARIES: GENRE

 

Giuliana Muscio, “East Coast/West Coast: The Long Tradition of Italian Immigrant Performers.”

Amanda Batarseh, “Re/writing the Orient: Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, the Thousand and One Nights, and the Hundred and One Nights”

Marianna Aguirre, “Concealing African Art: Ardengo Soffici and Carlo Carrà’s Ambivalent Primitivism”

Eleonora Meo, “Il visuale italiano nella crisi della cittadinanza. L’Italianness nei dispositivi di cattura neoliberali del “‘Migrant Cinema’”

Francesco D’Antonio, “La trilogia del naufragio di Lina Prosa (2003-2013): un teatro tra due frontiere”

Nelson Shuchmacher Endebo “A invençó do Brasile”: Juó Bananére and Non-Italian Italian Literature”

 

BORDER IMAGINARIES: POLITICS

 

Heather Sottong, “Dante’s Afterlife in Argentina.”

Eveljn Ferraro, “Jewish Refugee Women, Transnational Coalition Politics, and Affect in Ebe Cagli Seidenberg’s Come ospiti: Eva ed altri”

John Agnew, “Soli al Mondo: The Recourse to “Sovereigntism” in Contemporary Italian Populism”

SA Smythe, “Black Italianità: Citizenship and Belonging in the Black Mediterranean”

Igiaba Scego, “Home is Where I Am,” chapter one, translated by Jon R. Snyder and Megan Williamson.

 

California Italian Studies, Open Issue

Vol. 9, Issue 2  https://escholarship.org/uc/ismrg_cisj/9/2

Lucia Re and Joseph Tumolo, “Towards a Literary and Feminist Neo-Avant-Garde: Carla Vasio's Experimental Fiction”