Italian Material Cultures

Daniels, Rhiannon; Connor, Anne O’; Tycz, Katherine

doi:10.1080/00751634.2020.1750272

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“…Over the last several years, objects have come under investigation in the Italian studies context, at the intersection of the transnational and translational turn (Burdett, Havely, and Polezzi 2020). While there is now extensive scholarship investigating material culture in the context of migration (Basu and Coleman 2008;Wang 2016) and across languages (Aronin and O Laoire 2013; Ros i Solé 2020), objects of material culture have achieved visibility in Italian studies (Daniels, O'Connor and Tycz 2020) in work focusing on the transcultural aspects of the transnational turn (Burdett, Polezzi, and Spadaro 2020) and with reference to women's domestic work (Sciorra and Giunta 2014).…”

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Italian items in domestic spaces

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2022

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In their migration, people carry objects with them, and relocate them through physical spaces and across cultural boundaries. Handed down through generations, these objects become signs of ethnicity beyond their appearance and purpose. Examining the variety of the literary representations of objects and their subsequent translation contributes to the analysis of how material culture migrates within distant cultural systems and from one language to another. This essay focuses on domestic objects depicted by two Italian authors writing about the experience of a migrant coming-of-age in the United States: Helen Barolini and Chiara Barzini. Using diverse multilingual and (self-)translation strategies, they highlight through cultural translation the difficulties of bridging their Italian and American selfhood within an Italian household relocated abroad. In doing so, their relationship with objects underlines how their diasporic experience is entangled with their achievement of self-confidence and independence as women within the context of the Italian diaspora.

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Italian items in domestic spaces

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2022

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“…Studies on migration have demonstrated the importance of objects in shaping migrant memories, and how they can become symbols of belonging, badges of identity, links in transnational chains, and occasions for creative hybridization (Daniels et al 2020). The coexistence of people in super-diverse spaces (Vertovec 2007) brings together not only different languages and cultures, but also different objects: from food to clothing, from technology to books, from work tools to musical instruments (Basu and Coleman 2008).…”

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The Autobiography of a Language. Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing (SUNY Press, 2019). He was the recipient of an Irish Research Council/Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship for researching multilingualism in refugee reception centers in Italy (2017-2021); and was recently co-investigator on a British Academy-funded project on intercultural mediators during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

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Ambassadors of Italy: Italian Transatlantic Ocean Liners to the United States, 1946–1958

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2024

Italian American Review

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Italian Material Cultures

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Italian items in domestic spaces

Italian items in domestic spaces

Translating the object, objects in translation

Ambassadors of Italy: Italian Transatlantic Ocean Liners to the United States, 1946–1958

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