italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Grace Russo Bullaro,
I am interested about this initiative and I am thinking to send an abstract for the edited volume of contributions.
Who is the publisher of the collection and will the length of the article be 4000 words or a canonical 7000/8000 words?
Best wishes
Michela Baldo
Teaching fellow in Translation Studies
The University of Birmingham
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Subject: [I-S] CFP: Shaping and Shifting a National Identity: Migrant Literature Deadline
italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear Colleagues,
Yesterday I posted the following CFP. The deadline was accidentally truncated. Apologies. Abstracts should be submitted before April 15, 2012.
Shifting and Shaping a National Identity: A Study of literature written in Italian by and about migrants in Italy. (Edited volume)
The study of migration in Italy and other countries is a field of knowledge that daily puzzles anddisturbs us as we witness the social upheaval that results from the encounterbetween immigrants and the “native” population that frequently resist their presence.
Perhaps nothing is more symptomatic of the need for a newexploration of the so-called migration literature in Italy than the fact thatthe term itself is strongly debated and frequently found to be inaccurate,insufficient, and incapable of reflecting the current reality in many ways.Indeed, the national debate that rages in various forums on a daily basisclearly indicates that a reevaluation of the reciprocal impact between thenative and imported cultures and the ways it manifests itself in all aspects ofthe socio-political reality is of urgent concern.
In addition to these background issues that should inform astudy of Italian “migrant” literature, we would like to further probe the manyways in which the migrant culture can illuminate the relationship from bothdirections: the strategies deployed by the migrant to achieve inclusion, andthose deployed by the destination culture to exclude the newly arrived.
Someof the crucial issues and questions that can be addressed are:
1. The nature of narratives of the migrant experiencewritten by second generation authors.
2. Consider native Italian authors whonarrate the migration experience. Does their lack of authentic first-handexperience disqualify them?
3. Articulate some of the points ofdivergence and convergence between internal and external immigration.
4. Origin and hybridity. Problematizingthe (false ?) dichotomy of “native vs. immigrant.
5. Consider the geo-politicalimplications of “deterritorializing” language for any migrant literature.
6. Migrant women writers: the doublejeopardy of identity. Since women are the carriers and transmitters of culture, what are some of the ways that they function as the nexus between the original culture and thedestination culture?
7. The poetics/esthetics of migrantliterature. In light of Deleuze andGuattari’s pronouncement that any minor literature begins by expressing itselfbut does not conceptualize, can migrant literature therefore be considered“literature” or is it merely a form of expression that falls short of literarystandards?
8. Attempt to theorize “transmigration”as the current and future operational model of global paths of migration and the expressionof problematized identities through multi-lingual narrative in a destinationculture.
Proposed abstracts need not be limited to these topics.
Pleasesubmit a 500 word abstract to Grace Russo Bullaro at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Your abstract will be evaluated by apanel of
peers in a “double blind” process. Deadline April 15, 2012
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Grace Russo Bullaro
Professor and Chair
City University of New York
Lehman College-English Dept.
250 Bedford Park Blvd.
Bronx, NY 10468
718 960- 8701
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