| Description |
xi, 209 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Performative Belongings. 1. Situating the Italian Project of Visibility -- Pt. I. Histories and Identity Politics. 2. Imagining a Community: Migration, Settlement, Sacrifice and the Trope Kinship. 3. The Politics of 'Italians Abroad': Nation, Diaspora and New Geographies of identity -- Pt. II. Spaces, Memories, and Displays of Identity. 4. Space, Place and Icons: creating 'habitual spaces'. 5. Re-membering places and the performance of belonging. Conclusion: Memory, Location and the Body Motions of Duration -- App. 1. Methodological Considerations -- App. 2. Italian-born Population in Britain 1861-1991 -- App. 3. Italian-born Population in London, 1991 -- App. 4. Italian Associations and Committees named in the Book -- App. 5. Vote in Italian Senate on New Election Bill, 1993 |
| Summary |
"This book traces the formation of Italian migrant belongings in Britain, and scrutinizes the identity narratives through which they are stabilized. A key theme of this study is the constitution of identity through both movement and attachment." "Drawing on a wide range of material, from historical narratives, to political debates, processions, religious rituals, activities of the Women's Club, war remembrances, card games, and beauty contests, the author explores the notion of migrant belongings in relation to performative acts that produce what they claim to be reproducing. She reveals how these acts work upon the historical and cultural environment to remember localized terrains of migrant belongings, while they simultaneously manufacture gendered, generational and ethnicized subjects."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Subject |
Italians -- Great Britain -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnicity -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117808
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Italy -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104283
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| ISBN |
1859734057 |
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1859734103 paperback |
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