Introduction to Volume 9, Issue 1: Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy

Fogu, Claudio; Hom, Stephanie Malia; Ruberto, Laura E.

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“…These kinds of narratives are common to Italian and Italian American families—and to many of those involved in researching them—yet they are almost impossible to contain within rigid labels, genres, and classifications: such as, precisely, “Italian” or “Italian American,” but also autobiographical, scholarly … Instead, like most of the meandering narratives included in a recent issue of California Italian Studies devoted to “Borderless Italy/Italia senza frontiere,” they “call into question commonplace notions about Italy's territorial, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, racial, and social unity,” so that acknowledging them should lead us to “a re-orientation of Italian Studies as a discipline to account for the dynamics intrinsic to Italy's border imaginaries” (Fogu et al, 2019: 3). This can only be done by adopting mobile yet emplaced perspectives that recognize our own investment as researchers.…”

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Translating, repositioning, reframing: On the transatlantic routes of objects and memories

Polezzi

2023

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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Methods, objects and subjectsMy contribution to this forum on "Practices of Belonging" has a double focus. On the one hand, it concentrates on the multiple trajectories that histories of migration trace as they cross and re-cross the Atlantic, connecting the history of Italy and the US, in particular, via the stories of multiple departures and returns. On the other, it asks what it means to research material which is close to one's own subjective experience and personal history, or what "positionality" means when we are faced with the political, ethical, and affective demands of migrant narratives. There is a tension, inherent in working with the stories, the narratives of others' lives, which often also implicate our own. In that tension, becoming conscious of our own implications (Rothberg, 2019), we both make and unmake our practices as "experts," "scholars," "specialists"-and we also build and dismantle our "authority." Similarly, reflecting on these issues has two intersecting purposes. It aims to contribute to ongoing discussion about research method and research positioning in the field of Modern Languages, conjoining questions about the role of translation and (auto)ethnography in disciplinary research practices Wells et al., 2019) with observations on the way personal experience and ethical choices influence how we select, carry out, and narrate our investigations (Pugliese, 2019;Ricatti, 2022;Spadaro, 2020). At the same time, I intend to discuss the mobility of cultural products by following the complex, non-linear translational layering of production, circulation, and reception processes-what Felce (2021) calls "multitudinous translation"-and how that mobility, which is at the heart of a transnational approach to Italian culture (Bond, 2014;, can help us to overcome the silos structure and the hierarchies implicit in labels such as "Italian Studies," "Italian American Studies," and other such formulas. In this sense, it is also important to remember that

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Translating, repositioning, reframing: On the transatlantic routes of objects and memories

Polezzi

2023

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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“…In the past few decades, a focus on space has revealed unexplored connections between migrations from and to Italy, colonialism, and other forms of mobility that rethink the entanglements of Italianness alongside national paradigms tied to citizenship, national borders, and blood (Burdett et al, 2020;Fiore, 2017;Fogu, 2020;Fogu et al, 2019;Lombardi-Diop and Romeo, 2012). This focus on space has made clear the ineffectiveness of a national approach to Italy's migrations as "Partenze" from point A and "Arrivi" to point B (to echo the subtitles of the landmark two-volume publication by Bevilacqua et al, 2001Bevilacqua et al, , 2002; the usefulness of a diasporic model emphasizing multidirectionality and translocal connections; and the current conceptualization of a comprehensive transnational approach to the research and teaching of not only migrations but the entire field of Italian Studies (Fiore, 2019).…”

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Place and transmemory in California Italian American literary narratives: Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino

Ferraro

2023

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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In this article, I propose to think of spaces as sites of production and manifestation of memory, which, in turn, constitutes a transnational formation, one that can hardly be discursively fixed. In particular, my analysis of Dorothy Bryant's 1978 novel Miss Giardino uncovers how transmemory, or the intergenerational transmission of memory from diasporic to ethnic subjects, complicates ideas of Italian belonging. I turn to the study of space, with an emphasis on the multiethnic neighborhood of The Mission, in the east-central part of San Francisco, to address the mediation between Italian diasporic past and interethnic present. While acknowledging that forms of inherited memory (or postmemory), such as class memory, affect the social practice of place intergenerationally, I also aim to show that in transmemory spaces are made differently meaningful. Ultimately, reframing spaces of Italian migrations through the lens of transmemory offers a way to move us forward from impasses in Transnational Italian Studies and diaspora debates that assign to memory an overly static and national paradigm.

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Melancholia of Migration in the Transnational Italian Imaginary

Sarnelli

2023

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture

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Introduction to Volume 9, Issue 1: Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy

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Translating, repositioning, reframing: On the transatlantic routes of objects and memories

Translating, repositioning, reframing: On the transatlantic routes of objects and memories

Place and transmemory in California Italian American literary narratives: Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino

Melancholia of Migration in the Transnational Italian Imaginary

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