Transnational Writing on Italy
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Relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales and narrate their experience of cultural accommodation in autobiographical accounts. This book seeks to understand the discourse of identity/alterity in relocation writing, which focuses on the topos of everyday life from a transnational perspective, one which embraces a cosmopolitan orientation of openness to cultural difference. Focusing on three transnational writers in Italy and their respective relocation trilogies – Frances Mayes’s Tuscan memoirs, Annie Hawes’s Ligurian memoirs, and Tim Parks’s Verona memoirs – the study examines the sustained engagement with place and place-based practices given narrative voice through multipart works which trace their migrating identities. These nonfiction accounts contribute to a broader polyphonic literature in which transnational writers give voice to personal stories shaped by intercultural experiences. Relocation narratives thus provide a powerful localised lens through which to examine how identities are dialogically transformed through contact with difference in a globalised world, contributing to a better understanding of cultural change in late modernity. By giving readers an opportunity to reflect on identity and diversity in local/global contexts, transnational literature provides an important space for critical, creative and transcultural exchange.
Lynn Mastellotto – PhD (University of East Anglia, UK), MA and BA (McGill University, Canada), PGCE (Oxford University, UK) – is an Assistant Professor in English Language and Translation at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. Her research focuses on identity in narrative discourse, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in cultural theory, multimodal communication, and intermediality in translation.
Acknowledgements.................................................................................
Introduction..........................................................................................
Chapter 1 – Relocation Narratives Made in Italy.............................
Emplacement abroad..........................................................................
Locating relocation writing................................................................
The subjective quest...........................................................................
Chapter 2 – Transnational Lifestyles in the Late-Twentieth Century..................................................................................................
Lifestyle migration.............................................................................
The rural idyll.....................................................................................
Colonial and cosmopolitan orientations.............................................
Chapter 3 – Frances Mayes’s Tuscan Dream....................................
Bramasole – a ruin with a view..........................................................
Tuscan foodways and homemaking...................................................
Timeless Tuscans and Tuscany..........................................................
Chapter 4 – Annie Hawes on Liguria.................................................
A tourist’s gaze...................................................................................
Deep immersion in everyday life.......................................................
Ligurians, Italians, Others..................................................................
Chapter 5 – Tim Parks on Verona and Beyond................................
Italian neighbours...............................................................................
Italian lessons.....................................................................................
Conviviality and community..............................................................
Conclusion.............................................................................................
References...............................................................................................
Index.......................................................................................................
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research in Travel Writing |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-87047-8 / 1032870478 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-87047-2 / 9781032870472 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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