National Belongings: Hybridity in Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures

Chapter 6 - 1994

“…As Jacqueline Andall and Derek Duncan argue, 'Interactions tend not to be neutrally received and accepted, but rather have been and are frequently contested and contentious spaces of mediation and interaction'. 69 The Lega Nord [Northern League] party 'resist[ed] hybridity and tried to perpetuate an imagined authentic Northern Italian culture'; the contact zones between the new migrants to Italy and native Italians were uneasy, with informal segregation and surveillance. 70 The normalization of intermedia in the 1990s played out against the conf lictual, messy alliances between the new political allies of the Second Republic and against the uneasy contact zones that brought together and kept apart the newly arrived migrants and resident Italians.…”