Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives [Paperback]

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives is about identityindividual and nationaland belonging. It is also an affirmation of diversity. The editors of this volume have brought together articles that analyze the literature of migration as well as creative pieces by recognized authors who have a lived experience of migration. English speakers will find their own societal struggles with diversity mirrored in Italys colonial inheritance and its renewed nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and shifting national identity.The artists and scholars who have contributed to this book challenge national discourses, dehumanizations, and issues of race and gender. But many also seek to move beyond the negative and critical to claim belongingespecially national belongingin the name of diversity as part of human experience. The chapters emphasize how individuals both reflect and enact societal change, and they foreground the inescapable fact that human differences and migration drive and shape societal identity in our world.

Marie Orton is professor of Italian at Brigham Young University.

Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language at Dartmouth College.

Ron Kubati, PhD., is an independent scholar and author.

Section I: Diversity in Italy

Poetry
Vera L?cia de Oliveira
I was among warm folk in a warm country (Ero fra calda gente in un caldo paese)
Translated by Ashna Ali

Essay
Clarissa Cl? and Enrico Zammarchi
Stran(i)ero nella mia nazione: Hip-Hop from Southern Alie-Nation to Afro-Italian Nation-Hood

Essay
Daniele Comberiati
Reading Albania in Italy: Reception of Elvira Dones's Piccola guerra perfetta and Ron Kubati's La via dell'eroe

Essay
Lucia Re
Migration, the Novel and the Power of Fear: A Dialogical Perspective from Baktin to Lakhous

Fiction
Amara Lakhous
Ninth Wail and The Truth of Abdallah Ben Kadour, frol£]