Transcultural Italies

Charles Burdett is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Durham Loredana Polezzi is Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies at Stony Brook University. Barbara Spadaro is Lecturer in Italian History and Culture at the University of Liverpool.

“Transcultural Italies adds new dimensions to the study of human mobilities and suggests a path-breaking approach to the cultural study of Italian migrations, from the movement of people and objects through space and memory to Italian influences on global culture.”Maddalena Tirabassi, Centro Altreitalie sulle Migrazioni Italiane, Turin

• Introduction: Transcultural ItaliesCharles Burdett, Loredana Polezzi and Barbara SpadaroSection 1: TracesThe Transnational Biography of ‘British’ Place: Local and Global Stories in the Built EnvironmentJennifer BurnsPorteña Identity and Italianità: Language, Materiality and Transcultural Memory in Valparaíso’s Italian CommunityNaomi WellsItalian Identity, Global Mediterranean: Tourism and Cultural Heritage in Post-Colonial RhodesValerie McGuireItaly and Africa: Post-War Memories of Life in Eritrea and EthiopiaCharles BurdettSection 2: Art, Objects and Artefacts‘The Path that Leads Me Home’: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Arts of TransnationalizingDerek DuncanMoving Objects: Memory and Material CultureMargaret Hills de ZárateVisualizing Spatialization at a Crossroads between Translation and Mobility: Italian Australian Artist Jon Cattapan’s CityscapesEliana MaestriAn Exhibition about Italian Identities Beyond BordersViviana Gravano and Giulia GrechiSection 3: Mobilities of MemoryPitigliano, Maryland? Travelling Memories and Moments of TruthBarbara SpadaroMisplaced Plants: Migrant Gardens and TransculturationIlaria VanniThe Chinese Community in Italy, the Italian Community in China: Economic Exchanges and Cultural DifferenceChiara GiulianiWriting the Neighbourhood: Literary Representations of Language, Space and MobilityRita WilsonFrom Substitution to Co-presence: Translation, Memory, Trace and the Visual Practices of Diasporic Italian ArtistsLoredana Polezzi