Pre-Occupied Spaces

Preface
Introduction. All at One Point: The Un/likely Connections between Italy’s Emigration, Immigration, and (Post-)Colonialism
Part I. Waters: Migrant Voyages and Ships from/to Italy
Aperture I: An Osean of Pre-occupation and Possibilities: The Show L’orda
1. Crossing the Atlantic to Meet the Nation: The Emigration Ship in Mignonette’s Songs and Crialese’s Nuovomondo
2. Overlapping Mediterranean Routes in Marra’s Sailing Home, Ragusa’s The Skin Between Us, and Tekle’s Libera
Part II. Houses: Multi-Ethnic Residential Spaces as Living Archives of Pre-occupation and Invention
Aperture II. A Multi-Cultural Project in a National Square: The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio
3. Displaced Italies and Immigrant “Delinquent” Spaces in Pariani’s Argentinian Conventillos and Lakhous’ Roman Palazzo
4. Writing the Pasta Factory and the Boarding House as Trans-National Homes: Public and Private Acts in Melliti’s Pantanella and Mazzucco’s Life
Part III. Workplaces: A Creative Re-occupation of Labor Spaces against Exploitation
Aperture III. Labor on the Move: Rodari’s Construction Workers and Kuruvilla’s Babysitter
5. Edification between Nation and Migration in Cavanna’s Les Ritals and Adascalitei’s “Il giorno di San Nicola”
6: The Circular Routes of Colonial and Post-Colonial Homecare: Però’s and Ciaravino’s Alexandria and Ghermandi’s “The Story of Woizero Bekelech and Signor Antonio”
Conclusions. Italy as an Imagi-Nation Laboratory: The Citizenship Law between In and Outbound Flows
Notes
Works Cited
Index