Destination Italy

Emma Bond is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on the literary relationship between space and identity, and particularly on border, migrant and transnational writing. Guido Bonsaver is Professor of Italian Cultural History at the University of Oxford. He works on the relationship between political history and narrative and has particular expertise in censorship, Fascism and film studies. Federico Faloppa is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Reading. His research centres around the linguistic construction of otherness, the dynamics of language and power, and intercultural communication.

Contents: Marco Binotto: Invaders, Aliens and Criminals: Metaphors and Spaces in the Media Definition of Migration and Security Policies - Marco Bruno: The Journalistic Construction of «Emergenza Lampedusa»: The «Arab Spring» and the «Landings» Issue in Media Representations of Migration - Mahmoud Zidan: The Image of Italy and Immigrants to Italy in the Media: A Destination or Place of Damnation? - Federico Faloppa: Media and Migration: Some Linguistic Reflections - Andrea Pogliano: Framing Migration: News Images and (Meta-)Communicative Messages - Gabriela Jacomella: The Silence of Migrants: The Underrepresentation of Migrant Voices in the Italian Mainstream Media - Anna Meli: Training Journalists on Immigration: Experiences and Reflections - Eugénie Saitta: Ethnicity and Organizational Processes in «Mixed» Media: The Case of Yalla Italia - Grazia Biorci: Beyond Hybridization: Metaphors and New Visions in «Migrant Literature» in Italian - Nora Moll: Narrative Strategies, Literary Imaging and Reflections on Identity: Constructing a Narrative Community in Italy - Emma Bond: «Skin Memories»: Expressions of Corporeality in Recent Trans-national Writing in Italian - Maria Grazia Negro: The Decentred Gaze of Postcolonial Literature on Italians Past and Present - Daniele Comberiati/Linde Luijnenburg: New Postcolonial Art Forms: Timira as Multi-Genre Object Between Cinema and Literature - Derek Duncan: The Postcolonial Afterlife of Primo Levi - Loredana Polezzi: Migrant Writing as (Self-)Translation: The Transnational Trajectory of Giose Rimanelli - Vito Zagarrio: Imagined Journeys: Italian Directors and Immigration - Guido Bonsaver: Accented Voices in Contemporary Italian Cinema - Millicent Marcus: Federico Bondi's Mar nero: Channelling the Geographic Unconscious - Paolo Russo: Migration Told Through Noir Conventions in La sconosciuta and Gomorra - Alessandro Jedlowski: Nigerian Migrants, Nollywood Videos and the Emergence of an «Anti-Humanitarian» Representation of Migration in Italian Cinema - Áine O'Healy: Witnessing History, Recounting Suffering: The Documentary Project of Andrea Segre - Alessandro Triulzi: Roaming to Rome: Archiving and Filming Migrant Voices in Italy.