New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies

Contents

1. Definitions and Theory

David Forgacs “Intellectual and Subaltern Groups between Structure and Discourse: The Difficult Politics of Cultural Studies”
Michele Cometa (Translated by Marie Orton)
“Non Finito: The Form of Italian Cultural Studies”
Elena Pulcini “Community and Globalization”
Paolo Campolonghi “‘Le ceneri di Pasolini’: The Role of the Intellectuals from Nation to Alienation”
Loredana Polezzi “Polylingual Writing and the Politics of Language in Today’s Italy”
Paola Zaccaria “The Mediterranean Sea: Open Port or Border Wall?”

1. Practice (Case Studies)

Emilio Berrocal “‘Between His Gesture and My Smile’: Hip Hop Culture in Italy through the Figure of massiccio”
Derek Duncan “‘Is It Because I’m a Wop?’: Queer Diaspora and Postcolonial Italy”
Toshio Miyake “Italy Made in Japan: Occidentalism, Self-Orientalism, and Italianism in Contemporary Japan”
Alessandro Dal Lago (Translated by Marie Orton) “Italy’s Unmentionable Racism: Reflections on the Image of Foreigners in Italian Culture”
Valerie McGuire “Arcadian Histories: Italian Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean”