Italian ghetto stories
Toward a transnational literary history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9816109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski (Romance Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 579-611 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum Italicum A Journal of Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-5858 • E-ISSN: 2168-989X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00145858231172781 |
| OpenAlex | W4379143040 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
This article examines Italian ghetto stories, which are distinguished by confusions of time, continuities, tourism, reflections on collective identities, and movements in and out, in order to outline one potential literary history. In contrast to German-language and Anglophone literary ghettos, Italian ones are generally absent as a critical category from literary debates, though they appear in works by Leon Modena, Israel Zangwill, Rainer Maria Rilke, Umberto Saba, Giorgio Bassani, Elsa Morante, Caryl Phillips, and Igiaba Scego, among others. A transnational approach can bring together works that have not been considered collectively because of disciplinary formations. Italian ghetto fictions expose the disheartening continuities of prejudice and, relatedly, have generally not been considered together because of restrictive ideas about the nation as an organizing principle
Aesthetics · Art · Discipline · German · History of literature · Literature · Order (exchange · Political science · Prejudice (legal term · Social science · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
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Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity
Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Forging Shoah Memories
The Ghetto
Ghetto Writing
Aus der Judengasse
Italy's Jews from Emancipation to Fascism
The Beautiful Country
Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare
Empire's Mobius Strip
Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy
Italy's Divided Memory
Towards a Trans-national Turn in Italian Studies
Hitler’s American Model
Against Supersessionist Thinking
For a Jewish Italian Literary History
Looking Sideways to Italy in Contemporary World Literature
Collaging Cultures
Writing the Nation
Can the Subaltem Speak? The Politics of Identity and Difference in Italian Postcolonial Women's Writing
Multidirectional Memory
Out of the Ghetto
Whiteness of a Different Color
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |