Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini

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Italian Motherhood on Screen 2017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-56675-7_11

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Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema

Giovanna Faleschini Lerner

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“…Polizzi (2022: 7) identifies these anxieties as forming the narrow basis of current constructions of Italianness, but also argues that specific anxieties around race, gender, and sexuality “contributed to the process of the invention of the South.” Understanding the intersection between biopolitics and the nation-building project through a new transnational lens allows us to “open up to different and less linear sets of relationships” that Polizzi (2022: 8) sees embodied today in relations between Southerners and new migrant arrivals to Italy. Faleschini Lerner (2022: 11) advances the discourse on biopolitics and the (trans)nation further still to consider the immunitarian logic deployed during the Covid-19 crisis, and how in such crises of mobility, “new definitions of nation, belonging, and citizenship emerge.”…”

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‘Transnational Italian Cultures’: Editing as method

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2023

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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The issue editors invited contributors to this section on methodologies to reflect critically on the benefits and drawbacks of using a transnational approach to Italian cultures, and to assess whether the multiple and diverse applications of this approach have changed the field of Italian Studies more broadly. In order to offer some response to these questions, and to propose ways forward for work in this field during the decade to come, I want to focus here on my role as co-editor of the book series 'Transnational Italian Cultures.' 'Transnational Italian Cultures' was a joint initiative that my colleague Derek Duncan and I first proposed to Liverpool University Press in the summer of 2014. Looking back at the initial proposal that we sent to the press, I am struck by two things. The first is how we defined the scope of our inquiry as operating within "the burgeoning field of postcolonial, global and transnational Italian studies." The second is our stated aim to "bring together the outstanding work which is now being done in this area, and by bringing it together, set a new agenda for academic research on what constitutes Italian culture today" (emphasis mine). I am interested in the first statement because of how broadly we initially defined our "field" of inquiry, as spanning the intersecting spheres of postcolonial, global, and transnational studies, and I will return periodically to the still-shifting nature of how we set the boundaries of Transnational Italian Studies throughout this short piece. The second statement, however, is what I want to focus on: the importance of the act of "bringing together" the individual works in question in terms of providing a tailored space for their publication, but also in terms of what assembling a group of particular works means for the development of the wider field itself.In the paragraphs to come, I will thus seek to explore and offer some answers to the following questions through an analysis of the volumes we have published in the series to date. Why is it important to carve out a specific space of assemblage, such as an edited series, in order for a field of study to stretch, enfold, and develop? What can we learn by looking at the volumes in this particular series as constituent components of a community space? Can the sort of editorial work that Derek and I have carried out for the series be

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“I am an atypical mother”: Motherhood and maternal language in Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto’s poetry

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2021

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In her debut book Dolore minimo, Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto engages in a reflection on motherhood to recount an autobiographical story of gender self-determination and male to female transition. This article explores Vivinetto’s poetry as the retelling of transformative moments in two mother–daughter relationships, which generate a reshaping of life and language. In the book, these two storylines intersect, blur, and even overlap, creating a poetic discourse in which the maternal acts simultaneously as powerful catalyzer and producer of meanings. In discussing how, in Dolore minimo, the relationship of two atypical mothers becomes the creative site of a new possible symbolic order, my analysis engages an atypical approach: it reads Vivinetto’s queer representation of motherhood via the theorization developed by the women of Diotima—including, in particular, Luisa Muraro, Chiara Zamboni, Diana Sartori, and Ida Dominijanni. These feminist thinkers have been generally criticized for reinforcing binary understandings of sex and gender, based on an essentialist view of the category of woman. Yet, what if the feminism forwarded by Diotima, by positioning the feminine as a creative producer and first-person narrator of change, could still offer a productive avenue for dialogue? The article begins with a discussion of Diotima’s key theorizations, which lays the groundwork for interpreting the maternal poetics of Dolore minimo. The subsequent sections examine in more depth how Vivinetto’s poetry has reinvented the figure of the mother as a teacher and learner of new words, and how, through this reinvention, she has crafted a maternal language that knits together new relations of contiguity and change. Ultimately, by redeploying the figure of the mother beyond cisgender norms, Vivinetto’s poetry is revealing the inexhaustible vitality of this character.

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Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema

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‘Transnational Italian Cultures’: Editing as method

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