New Italian Voices: Transcultural Writing in Contemporary Italy

ISBN 10: 1599103761 / ISBN 13: 9781599103761

Published by Italica Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Italian Voices: Transcultural Writing in Contemporary Italy
• Publisher: Italica Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599103761
• ISBN 13: 9781599103761
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

“New Italian Voices” is an eclectic and vibrant collection of poetry, short stories, essays, theater, and prose by twenty authors from fifteen countries writing today in Italy, in Italian. These accomplished, award-winning authors of growing international acclaim come from India and Syria, Eastern Europe, North and sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Italy. Over the past three decades, Italy has become a destination for people driven from their homelands by economic, political, and cultural forces. The resulting demographic and social changes have largely been defined negatively by Italian media. Scaremongering headlines paint a picture of assault on the Italian coasts, a mass invasion disassociated from news about the labor market and linked instead to growing concerns about security. Excluded and objectified in political, legal, and media narratives, migrants challenge those discourses with literary narratives, and their new voices offer a variety of transnational experiences and transcultural sensibilities, exemplifying a broad range of themes and literary strategies. Preface, introduction, biobibliographical notes.

About the Authors

Cinzia Sartini Blum is a Professor of Italian at the University of Iowa. She is author of "Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature: Figures of Sub-jectivity in Progress" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), and "The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). She edited "Futurism and the Avant-Garde" (special issue of the "South Central Review, "1996). Other publications include "Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology" (with Lara Trubowitz, New York: Italica Press, 2001), an annotated translation of Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasione e rettorica (with Russell Valentino and David Depew, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), and a translation of Susanna Tamaro's Anima Mundi (Bloomington, IN: Autumn Hill Books, 2007).

Deborah L. Contrada has retired from the University of Iowa, where she directed the Italian Program for 30 years. Her research interests include Medieval Italian Lyric Poetry, Women's Studies, Italian-American Studies and the Literature of Migration.