Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy

Parati, Graziella

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“…But while the mainstream of Italian Studies in the United States may want to work further on denaturalizing the canon they work with, 1 I am more interested in addressing scholars who like me think against the grain of canon formation. In carving out space for texts that do not fit in the major fictions about Italy, Italianists have often relied upon fixed epistemic categories such as "women's writing in Italy" (Cox, 2008) and "women in contemporary Italian cinema" (Di Bianco, 2023;Faleschini Lerner, 2022); "Italian homosexuality" (Duncan, 2006); and "migrant writers in Italy" (Parati, 2017). While this important work has complicated the stories we tell in Italian Studies, it runs the risks of unwittingly smuggling in-much like the national family romance of more canonic endeavors-a knowable social formation called "Italy" understood as a genuine community of writers, filmmakers, readers, and viewers; epistemically transparent Italians that, while more pluralistically imagined than before, are still contained within the borders of the nation and its tradition, as well as neatly divided up into men and women, straights and queers, and supposedly indigenous and migrant cultural producers and consumers.…”

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Not straight from Italy: Seeking anti-national killjoys in Italian Studies

Bassi

2023

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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When, at a conference in my field, I am one of a handful of people whose research approach to Italian Studies is drawn from Queer Studies, I grapple with feelings of intellectual isolation. In those moments, the image that Pier Vittorio Tondelli (2006) used in opening Camere separate comes to mind. Leo, the novel's queer protagonist, is on a plane above the Alps at sunset gazing at a view both beautiful and unsettling. Looking out of the airplane window, he can only make out the outline of the mountain chain, its distinct shape impressing upon him and capturing his imagination. Immersed as it is in the melancholic hue of the evening sky, the landscape looks to Leo like an abstract painting framed by the oval shape of the oblò. The "abisso cobalto" (Tondelli, 2006: 7) he is staring at feels cold and distant, yet somewhat comforting in its orderly aloofness. When the light suddenly switches on, Leo sees his own face superimposed on the landscape and the previous order becomes jumbled, confusing, uncanny even-as if the shape of the natural world could not assimilate the lines, vectors, lights, and shadows that form the outline of Leo's queer self.Like other fields in the Modern Languages, Italian Studies has attempted to fit within its own disciplinary design the subjectivities-queer, trans, and non-binary (Amin, 2022) -that have animated Queer Studies since the seminal publication of Judith Butler's (2006) Gender Trouble in 1990. Since the turn of the century, Queer Studies has moved towards an increasingly intersectional understanding of identity formation (Eng

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Not straight from Italy: Seeking anti-national killjoys in Italian Studies

Bassi

2023

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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“…While Italian-African rhyzome reveals the particular dynamics of an Italian family living in a former colony of the fascist empire, and then forced to leave in 1969, after the Ghaddafi coup d’état , cultural hybridisations and disturbances of national memory through postcolonial counternarratives have been mainly undertaken in Italy by female migrant writers, whose narratological work has been foremost reliant upon geographical metaphors and evocative maps (see Lombardi-Diop and Romero, 2012; Parati, 2017; Ponzanesi, 2004; however, for an international perspective on literary postcolonialism and mapping, see Howard, 2010; Huggan, 1989; Ponzanesi and Merolla, 2005). For instance, Igiaba Scego’s novel, La mia casa è dove sono (tr.…”

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Reimagining the national map

Rossetto

Presti

2021

Dialogues in Human Geography

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The map of the nation may be considered a power tool that persists in reproducing exclusive forms of nationalism in response to migration crises. Yet, in this article, we argue that in an era marked by new, rampant rhetoric regarding nationalism, maps are surprisingly among the few spaces left to cultivate progressive imaginaries of cultural diversity and migration as intrinsic, positive features of national experiences. Discussing critical readings of national mappings, we encourage a dialogue between map studies and nation and nationalism studies through the lens of everyday cartographic nationhood. Taking Italy as a context of analysis, the paper considers subject-centred refabrications of national maps (IncarNations), alien phenomenologies of national cartographic objects (AlieNations), and transformative creative cartographies of migrant nations (ContamiNations) to promote an alternative understanding of the national map as a sensitive tool of pluralism in multicultural societies.

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“…In Muslim families and communities, connection to religion is important, but the complexities of multicultural relations can present challenges for health and welfare providers, and for Muslim-minorities (Amri and Bemak 2013;McLaren and Patil 2016;McLaren and Qonita 2020;Patil and McLaren 2019;Salma and Salami 2020). Several authors have attempted to unpack this complexity and its associations with lived experiences, such as of isolation and loneliness (Nagle 2016;Parati 2017), mental and physical ill-health (Koerner and Pillay 2020;McCoy et al 2016), and with general wellbeing or quality of life (Colic-Peisker 2009;Gardner et al 2014). Specific to Muslim-minority populations, there is a strong case for religiously tailored mosque-based or discrete Muslim community health and wellbeing interventions (Khan and Ahmad 2014).…”

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Respect for Religiosity: Review of Faith Integration in Health and Wellbeing Interventions with Muslim Minorities

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Integration of religion in community health and wellbeing interventions is important for achieving a good life among faith-based populations. In countries hosting Muslim-minorities, however, relatively little is reported in academic literature on processes of faith integration in the development and delivery of interventions. We undertook a review of peer reviewed literature on health and wellbeing interventions with Muslim-minorities, with specific interest on how Islamic principles were incorporated. Major databases were systematically searched and PRISMA guidelines applied in the selection of eligible studies. Twenty-one journal articles met the inclusion criteria. These were coded and analyzed thematically. Study characteristics and themes of religiosity are reported in this review, including the religious tailoring of interventions, content co-creation and delivery design based on the teachings from the Quran and Sunnah, and applicability of intervention structures. We reviewed the philosophical and structural elements echoing the Quran and Islamic principles in the intervention content reported. However, most studies identified that the needs of Muslim communities were often overlooked or compromised. This may be due to levels of religio-cultural knowledge of persons facilitating community health and wellbeing interventions. Our review emphasizes the importance of intellectual apparatus when working in diverse communities, effective communication-strategies, and community consultations when designing interventions with Muslim-minority communities.

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Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy

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Not straight from Italy: Seeking anti-national killjoys in Italian Studies

Not straight from Italy: Seeking anti-national killjoys in Italian Studies

Reimagining the national map

Respect for Religiosity: Review of Faith Integration in Health and Wellbeing Interventions with Muslim Minorities

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