Giuliani, ChiaraUnknown
Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English9783030750633Unknown1st ed.HISTORIOGRAPHY; UnknownThis book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar spaces of belonging. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature suggests “home spaces” as a lens to examine these places and the practices enacted by their inhabitants to feel at home. Drawing on a wide array of sources, this book focuses on the role played by memory in creating transnational connections between present and past locations and on how these connections shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ identity.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (viii, 186 p.)Unknownill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Chapter 1. Spaces of memory, spaces of belonging: home in postcolonial Italy --
Chapter 2. Termini Train Station: a Place to Arrive, a Place to Leave and to Live --
Chapter 3. The Phone Centre, a Place to Call Home --
Chapter 4. Spaces of Residence and Transnational Microcosms in Postcolonial Italy --
Chapter 5. Rooms as homes: the bathroom and the bedroom as memory containers --
Chapter 6. Conclusion - At home, everywhere.