Migrant Belongings: Memory, Space, Identity
Migrant Belongings: Memory, Space, Identity
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移民的财产：记忆、空间、身份
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10.5040/9781474215268
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2000
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A. Fortier
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A. Fortier
这本书追溯了意大利移民财产在英国的形成，并仔细审查了通过身份叙事使它们稳定下来。这项研究的一个关键主题是通过运动和依恋来构建身份。这项研究跟踪了1975年以来的意大利身份认同项目，当时社区领袖首次提出了对“隐形移民的未来”的担忧。作者以“隐形移民”这一形象作为研究的起点，因为它抓住了意大利人在英国政治和社会格局中所处的矛盾地位。作为被占多数的欧洲白人所吸收的文化少数，他们的项目沉浸在可见性的理想中，这依赖于各种“存在的展示”。从历史叙事到政治辩论、游行、宗教仪式、妇女俱乐部的活动、战争纪念、纸牌游戏和选美比赛等广泛的材料，作者探索了移民财产与产生他们声称是复制的表演行为的概念。她揭示了这些行为如何在历史和文化环境中作用于移民财产的地方化区域，同时它们产生了性别、代际和种族主题。这本书位于文化研究、海外侨民研究和女权主义/酷儿理论的十字路口，在将实证研究与关于身份的更广泛的理论辩论联系起来方面具有独特之处。2001年菲利普·艾布拉姆斯纪念图书奖提名
This book traces the formation of Italian migrant belongings in Britain, and scrutinizes the identity narratives through which they are stabilized. A key theme of this study is the constitution of identity through both movement and attachment. The study follows the Italian identity project since 1975, when community leaders first raised concerns about 'the future of invisible immigrants'. The author uses the image of 'invisible immigrants' as the starting point of her inquiry, for it captures the ambivalent position Italians occupy within the British political and social landscape. As a cultural minority absorbed within the white European majority, their project is steeped in the ideal ofvisibility that relies on various 'displays of presence'. Drawing on a wide range of material, from historical narratives, to political debates, processions, religious rituals, activities of the Women's Club, war remembrances, card games, and beauty contests, the author explores the notion of migrant belongings in relation to performative acts that produce what they claim to be reproducing. She reveals how these acts work upon the historical and cultural environment to re-member localized terrains of migrant belongings, while they simultaneously manufacture gendered, generational and ethnicizedsubjects.Located at the crossroads of cultural studies, 'diaspora' studies, and feminist/queer theory, this book is distinctive in connecting an empirical study with wider theoretical debates on identity.Nominated for the Philip Abrams Memorial Book Prize 2001