Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism Through the Italian Diaspora

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1997 - Broj stranica: 193
Bound by Distance takes its place among a growing body of scholarship the goal of which is to challenge the kind of thinking that reproduces the "West" as a stable and homogenous political and discursive entity. The Italian nation, with its peculiar process of formation, the continuous tensions between its own northern and southern regions, and its history of emigration, provides an important case for complicating and reassessing concepts of national, racial, economic, and cultural dominance. The author analyzes the interactive space of the history of Italian state formation, Italian subaltern literature, Italian emigrant writing, and the current situation of North African and Asian immigrants to Italy, in order to contest the "feigned homogeneity" of the Italian nation and to complicate and reassess concepts of national, racial, economic, and cultural dominance.
 

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The South as Dissonant National Subject
21
The Subaltern WrittenThe Subaltern Writing Standing Figurations of Southern Cultural Expression
52
Bound by Distance The Italian Immigrant as Decontextualized Subaltern
90
A New Way of Being Gramscian
136
Notes
170
Bibliography
182
Index
190
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