Overview
- Examines the ways in which migrant characters use space in order to establish new forms of belonging in Italian postcolonial society
- Suggests a new understanding of the idea of home in the context of migration, which allows for the creation of multiple home spaces
- Explores a wide range of literary and journalistic sources to analyse a series of public and private spaces used by migrants in Italy
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar spaces of belonging. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature suggests “home spaces” as a possible lens to examine these specific places and a series of practices enacted by their inhabitants in order to feel at home. Drawing on a wide array of sources, this book focuses on the role played by memory in creating transnational connections between present and past locations and on how these connections shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ identity.
Reviews
This lucid and finely crafted book explores how migration has made ‘home’ a constantly evolving concept and how practices of home-making can extend through memory and imagination to include spaces as diverse as the call centre and the train station. Providing detailed new readings of a range of postcolonial texts in Italian, this book will be essential reading for all scholars and students who engage with cultural representations of migration. (Emma Bond, Reader, University of St Andrews, Scotland)
This is an inspirational book that provides a compelling analysis of how migration literature negotiates and reconceives notions of home. Giuliani brilliantly explores how domestic and public spaces are reconfigured in postcolonial literature, allowing us to grasp the complexity of the lived experiences of migrants. Giuliani’s engaging work offers an innovative perspective on migration culture; an essential reading for anyone interested in Postcolonial, Memory and Space Studies. (Simone Brioni, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature
Authors: Chiara Giuliani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75063-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75062-6Published: 28 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75065-7Published: 29 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75063-3Published: 27 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 186
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Literature, Literature, general, Memory Studies