National Belongings

The Editors: Jacqueline Andall is Senior Lecturer in Italian and European Studies at the University of Bath. She has published primarily on contemporary Italian politics and society, with particular reference to immigration, the second generation and postcolonialism. Derek Duncan is Professor of Italian Cultural Studies at the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on modern Italian literature and film, with particular reference to issues of gender and sexuality, and colonial and postcolonial culture.

Contents: Jacqueline Andall/Derek Duncan: Introduction: Hybridity in Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Culture - Alessandro Triulzi: Displacing the Colonial Event: Hybrid Memories of Postcolonial Italy - Vetri Nathan: Mimic-nation, Mimic-men: Contextualizing Italy's Migration Culture through Bhabha - Maurizio Marinelli: Italy and/in Tianjin: Remaking the Urban Form and Rewriting History - Roberta Pergher: Between Colony and Nation on Italy's 'Fourth Shore' - Domenica Ghidei Biidu/Sabrina Marchetti: Eritrean Memories of the Postcolonial Period: Ambivalence and Mimicry in Italian Schools in Asmara - Jennifer Burns: Language and its Alternatives in Italophone Migrant Writing - Charles Burdett: Mussolini's Journey to Libya (1937): Ritual, Power and Transculturation - Jacqueline Andall: The G2 Network and Other Second-Generation Voices: Claiming Rights and Transforming Identities - Derek Duncan: Kledi Kadiu: Managing Postcolonial Celebrity - Rhiannon Noel Welch: Intimate Truth and (Post)colonial Knowledge in Shirin Ramzanali Fazel's Lontano da Mogadiscio.

«Dem Band gelingt es, einen oft überraschenden Einblick in bisher in der traditionellen Italianistik vernachlässigte oder verdrängte Paradigmen zu geben und ihre Wichtigkeit für ein vertieftes Verständnis der italienischen Gesellschaft, Politik und Kultur der Gegenwart aufzuzeigen.» (Annette Keilhauer, Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 61, 2011/3)