Using the award-winning film Terraferma as a cultural and political text in comparison with the media coverage of the nonfictional immigration crisis in the Mediterranean, the author of this research project exercises ideological criticism toward the European Union (EU). This essay examines how and why Italian state institutions and policies are unable to tackle the unfolding immigration crisis. It also addresses particularities and possibilities of communication dynamics between the local population on the island of Lampedusa and the incoming immigrant population from North Africa. Ultimately, this research project comparatively studies factual and fictional media representations of the African Other and their methodological and epistemological impact on the multicultural dynamics in the EU.
This essay analyzes Fatih Akin's German–Italian drama Solino (2002) as it depicts the phenomena of transnational European identity (with special emphasis on gender), homeplace, and multiculturalism in the era of globalization and ongoing migration. Specifically, this work illustrates how Akin's cinematographic narrative confirms German and Italian Eurocentricity and its well‐established system of values as pivotal criteria for currently particularly relevant European multiculturalism. Using the Eurocentric lens of interpretation of globalization, migration, and negotiation of “self,” “other,” “home,” “passing,” and “be‐longing,” this essay critically analyzes the drama Solino as a cultural and political text.
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