• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Intimacy and Italian Migration : Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World
  • Enthält: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Home, Family, and the Italian Nation in a MobileWorld
    The National in the Personal through Biography
    The Marriage of Giorgina Craufurd and Aurelio Saffi
    The Atlantic Valentino
    ‘‘George the Queer Danced the Hula’’
    Domesticating the Diaspora
    ‘‘Italian’’ Motherhood and Marriage through Oral Narratives
    Calculating Babies
    Mothering Contradictory Diasporas
    Love Crossing Borders
    Mothering across Boundaries
    Ethnographic Studies of Family, Community, and Nation
    Between Public and Private
    State-Imposed Translocalism and the Dream of Returning
    Obligation to People and Place
    Notes
    Contributors
    Index
  • Beteiligte: Baldassar, Loretta [MitwirkendeR]; Baldassar, Loretta [HerausgeberIn]; Bertellini, Giorgio [MitwirkendeR]; De Tona, Carla [MitwirkendeR]; Gabaccia, Donna R. [MitwirkendeR]; Gabaccia, Donna R. [HerausgeberIn]; McKibben, Carol Lynn [MitwirkendeR]; Miller, Pavla [MitwirkendeR]; Pesman, Ros [MitwirkendeR]; Pojmann, Wendy [MitwirkendeR]; Rieker, Yvonne [MitwirkendeR]; Stabile, Carol A. [MitwirkendeR]; Waldron Merithew, Caroline [MitwirkendeR]; Wessendorf, Susanne [MitwirkendeR]
  • Erschienen: New York, NY: Fordham University Press, [2022]
  • Erschienen in: Critical Studies in Italian America
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (245 p.); 7 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780823291847
  • ISBN: 9780823291847
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  • Schlagwörter: HISTORY / Europe / Italy
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  • Anmerkungen: In English
  • Beschreibung: This provocative collection of essays adds a new dimension to our understanding of nation-building through its examination of the role of intimate cultural processes. First, by exploring the private lives of migrants from Italy through biography, oral history, and ethnography, these essays suggest why and how—across cultures—Italianness has come to be associated with a particular kind of femininity and supposedly distinctive elements of domestic life symbolized by long-held stereotypes of the Italian mother. On a larger scale, while the editors and contributors share with previous works on the Italian diaspora a keen interest in the imagining of nations across national borders, here they refocus our attention to the significance of the domestic, particularly the lives of individual men and women, their families, and the communities they loved—and left behind
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