{"id":206517,"date":"2017-08-22T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?p=206517"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:54:24","slug":"pre-occupied-spaces-a-new-book-by-teresa-fiore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/2017\/08\/22\/pre-occupied-spaces-a-new-book-by-teresa-fiore\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Occupied Spaces: A New Book by Teresa Fiore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><em>Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational <\/em><em>Migrations<\/em><em> and Colonial Legacies<\/em> is the title of a new book by Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at 精品成人福利在线 University), published by Fordham University Press in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By linking Italy&#8217;s long history of emigration to all continents in the world, contemporary transnational migrations directed toward it, as well as the country&#8217;s colonial legacies, Fiore&#8217;s book poses Italy as a unique laboratory to rethink national belonging at large in our era of massive demographic mobility. Through an interdisciplinary cultural approach, the book finds traces of globalization in a past that may hold interesting lessons about inclusiveness for the present.<\/p>\n<p>Fiore rethinks Italy&#8217;s formation and development on a transnational map through the cultural analysis of travel, living, and workspaces as depicted in literary, filmic, and musical texts. Such texts include, among others, Crialese&#8217;s film\u00a0<em>Golden Door<\/em>, Lakhous&#8217; novel\u00a0<em>Clash of Civilization Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio<\/em>, Cavanna&#8217;s autobiographical book\u00a0<em>Les Ritals<\/em>, and Calvino&#8217;s and Rodari&#8217;s short stories.<em>\u00a0<\/em>By demonstrating how immigration in Italy today is preoccupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/events\/2017-18-events\/book-presentation-pre-occupied-spaces\/\">first public presentation of the book<\/a>\u00a0is scheduled for Monday, December 11, 2017 (<span class=\"m_3067098913108261795gmail-im\">6:30-8:30pm)<\/span>\u200c\u00a0in the Lecture Hall 101, Feliciano School of Business at the 精品成人福利在线 campus<strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy&#8217;s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies is the title of a new book by Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at 精品成人福利在线 University), published by Fordham University Press in May 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":206541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-endowed-chairs-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208361,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206517\/revisions\/208361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}