Abstract: This article examines the poetics and politics of place in Italian/American culture and in Tina De Rosa?s novel Paper Fish (1980), particularly its portrayal of ?elegies and genealogies of place?, an appropriate framework through which to read the importance of spatial belonging. It investigates the way in which cultural identity is mostly built on both imagined communities and imagined places, as is common in migrant and diasporic cultures, through the evocation or creation of ancestors and the homeland. In addition, the Italian/American community leaves the characteristic Little Italy enclaves or undergoes displacement due to urban renewal projects and the move to the suburbs in the mid-twentieth century, which is sometimes comp...
This article sketches a history of how the concept of Italy has travelled worldwide to become a mobi...
The article initiates an investigation into a possible process of urban gentrification in a city wit...
Throughout the 1900s, the sense of a distinct Sicilian-ness manifested itself in a corpus of texts b...
This article examines the poetics and politics of place in Italian/American culture and in Tina De R...
This essay is a brief exploration of the related concepts of Italian Ethnicity and Italian Ethnic Id...
As a country of immigrants, Argentina assimilated several languages in its idiolect. The languages s...
The literature suggests that identifying with a particular place can promote a sense of ethnic ident...
In the last three decades, Italian/American culture has known, at last, a veritable renaissance and ...
This article is based on “Communicating Migration,” a collective research project that is part of a ...
During the age of mass migration (1850-1940) more than 4 million Italians reached the United States....
The article identifies the Italian Districts around the world to be conceived as an Urban Heritage, ...
Migration has shaped both Italy and Argentina’s histories since the mid-nineteenth century, and curr...
In this essay the cultural issues of Italian American communities in the 20th century USA have been ...
This article investigates Di Grado’s description of coming-of-age as an Italian girl living abroad i...
In this article, building on recent theories of displacement, I propose a definition of post-displac...
This article sketches a history of how the concept of Italy has travelled worldwide to become a mobi...
The article initiates an investigation into a possible process of urban gentrification in a city wit...
Throughout the 1900s, the sense of a distinct Sicilian-ness manifested itself in a corpus of texts b...
This article examines the poetics and politics of place in Italian/American culture and in Tina De R...
This essay is a brief exploration of the related concepts of Italian Ethnicity and Italian Ethnic Id...
As a country of immigrants, Argentina assimilated several languages in its idiolect. The languages s...
The literature suggests that identifying with a particular place can promote a sense of ethnic ident...
In the last three decades, Italian/American culture has known, at last, a veritable renaissance and ...
This article is based on “Communicating Migration,” a collective research project that is part of a ...
During the age of mass migration (1850-1940) more than 4 million Italians reached the United States....
The article identifies the Italian Districts around the world to be conceived as an Urban Heritage, ...
Migration has shaped both Italy and Argentina’s histories since the mid-nineteenth century, and curr...
In this essay the cultural issues of Italian American communities in the 20th century USA have been ...
This article investigates Di Grado’s description of coming-of-age as an Italian girl living abroad i...
In this article, building on recent theories of displacement, I propose a definition of post-displac...
This article sketches a history of how the concept of Italy has travelled worldwide to become a mobi...
The article initiates an investigation into a possible process of urban gentrification in a city wit...
Throughout the 1900s, the sense of a distinct Sicilian-ness manifested itself in a corpus of texts b...