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Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism
Tullio Pagano“Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism is a necessary point of reference for studies that address the contact between Argentina and Italy, especially migratory phenomena. It serves as a reminder of so many stories, detours, and intersections between these two geocultural spaces.”
—Fernanda Elisa Bravo Herrera, author of Huellas y recorridos de una utopía: La emigración italiana en la Argentina
"From Boccadasse to La Boca, Tullio Pagano complexifies the relationship between ‘diaspora’ and ‘colonialism’ in the context of Italian migration to South America. In six thematic chapters, Pagano explores the thought of authors on and off the canon. Such diverse voices lead the reader to a new approach to the study of emigrant colonialism and creole studies, towards a deeper, more realistic understanding of the ‘conquest of the desert’ that Italian emigrants wanted to perform in Argentina."
—Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University
Tullio Pagano is associate professor of Italian at Dickinson College. He is the author of La civiltà del castagno. Storia, cultura e memoria del borgo di Cisiano in val Lentro (Frilli, 2006) and Experimental Fictions: From Emile Zola's Naturalism to Giovanni Verga's Verism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999).
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- 978-1-943208-55-5 (open access)
- 978-1-943208-54-8 (paperback)