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This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, anthropological fieldwork, and race, gender, diaspora, and urban studies.

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1. The Italian Postcolonial; Robert J.C. Young PART I: EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL TRAJECTORIES 2. The New European Migratory Regime and the Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Racism; Sandro Mezzadra 3. The Postcolonial Turn in Italian Studies: European Perspectives; Sandra Ponzanesi 4. The Emigrant Post-´Colonia´ in Contemporary Immigrant Italy; Teresa Fiore 5. De-provincializing Italy: Notes on Race, Racialization and Italy´s Coloniality; Miguel Mellino PART II: SHARED MEMORIES, CONTESTED PROXIMITIES 6. Hidden Faces, Hidden Histories: Contrasting Voices of Postcolonial Italy; Alessandro Triulzi 7. Shooting the Colonial Past in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Effects of Deferral in Good Morning Aman; Derek Duncan 8. Italians DOC? Posing and Passing from Giovanni Finati to Amara Lakhous; Barbara Spackman 9. Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea: Subalternity, Grace, Nostalgia and the ´Rediscovery´ of Italian Colonialism in the Horn of Africa; Giovanna Trento 10. Southerners, Migrants, Colonized: A Postcolonial Perspective on Carlo Levi´s Cristo si è fermato a Eboli and Southern Italy Today; Roberto Derobertis PART III: INTIMATIONS AND INTIMACIES OF RACE 11. Postracial/Postcolonial Italy; Cristina Lombardi-Diop 12. Blaxploitation Italian Style: Exhuming and Consuming the Colonial Black Venus in 1970s Cinema in Italy; Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto 13. Screening Intimacy and Racial Difference in Postcolonial Italy; µine O´Healy 14. Race Evaporations: Representing Blackness in African Italian Postcolonial Literature; Caterina Romeo PART IV: POSTNATIONAL AESTHETICS, TRANSCULTURAL PRODUCTION 15. On the Periphery of Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Italy and the Emergence of an Intercultural Aesthetics; Alessandro Jedlowski 16. Envisioning Postcolonial Italy: Haile Gerima´s Adwa: An African Victory and Isaac Julien´s Western Union: Small Boats; Shelleen Greene 17. "Roma Forestiera": A Project on Migrant Music in Rome; Alessandro Portelli 18. Hip Pop Italian-Style: The Postcolonial Imagination of Second Generation Authors in Italy; Clarissa Clò

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Robert J. C. Young, New York University, USA Sandro Mezzadra, University Of Bologna, Italy Sanra Ponzanesi, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University, Usa Miguel Mellino, University Of Naples "L´orientale" Alessandro Triulzi, Università Di Napoli "L´orientale" Derek Duncan, University Of Bristol, UK Giovanna Trento, University Of The Western Cape, South Africa Roberto Derobertis, University Of Bari, Italy Sabrina Marchetti, European University Institute In Florence, Italy Barbara De Vivo, University Of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto, Auburn University, USA µine O´Healy, Loyola Marymount University, USA Isabella Clough Marinaro, The American University Of Rome, Italy Alessandro Jedlowsk, University Of Naples "L´orientale" Shelleen Greene, University Of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA Alessandro Portelli, University Of Rome "La Sapienza" Clarissa Clo, San Diego State University, USA

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