Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity

by Cristina Lombardi-Diop, C. Romeo (Editor)

This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, anthropological fieldwork, and race, gender, diaspora, and urban studies.

333 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Shayan Tadayon]

Read sections and essays:

Introduction: Paradigms of Postcoloniality in Contemporary Italy – Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo
1. The Italian Postcolonial – Robert J. C. Young
2. The New European Migratory Regime and the Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Racism – Sandro Mezzadra
3. The Postcolonial Turn in Italian Studies: European Perspectives – Sandra Ponzanesi
9. Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea: Subalternity, Grace, Nostalgia, and the “Rediscovery” of Italian Colonialism in the Horn of Africa – Giovanna Trento
10. Southerners, Migrants, Colonized: A Postcolonial Perspective on Carlo Levi’s Cristo si è fermato a Eboli and Southern Italy Today – Roberto Derobertis