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| The Imagined Immigrant |
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Author - Ilaria Serra
Publication Date - August 2009
Number of Pages - 313
ISBN #9780838641989
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Price $65.00 - Price subject to change
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| Using original sources - such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews - Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as 'imagery' and 'imaginary'. Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The 'imagined immigrant' walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.
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Ilaria Serra was born in Venice. She received her Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia from the University of Venice and a PhD in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University. After teaching at Purdue University, Colgate University, Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic), and the University of Venice (Centro Linguistico), she is currently Assistant Professor of Italian at Florida Atlantic University. Among her publications are several articles and book chapters on immigration studies, film studies, and popular culture. She is the author of two books on Italian immigration in the United States: The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies (2007) and the award-winning Immagini di un immaginario (1997). |
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