Writing Migration through the Body

Emma Bond is Senior Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her previous publications include Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini (2012), and the co-edited volumes Freud and Italian Culture (2009), Il confine liquido: rapporti letterari e interculturali fra Italia e Albania (2013), Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative (2015) and Goliarda Sapienza in Context: Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture (2016).

• 1. Introduction. ‘Trans-scripts’.- 2. Chapter 2. ‘Signing with a scar’: Inscriptions, Narration, Identity.- 3. Chapter 3. Trans-gender, trans-national: Crossing binary lines.- 4. Chapter 4. Trans-national mothering: Corporeal trans-plantations of care.- 5. Chapter 5. Revolting folds: Disordered and disciplined bodies.- 6. Chapter 6. Absent bodies, haunted spaces.- 7. Afterword.