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This pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthetic and social activity of making, one practised by migrants on the move and also by those who represent their lives in an act of support. Adopting a multilingual approach, the book interprets the aesthetics and political practices developed by and with migrants in Spain, Italy and France. It juxtaposes early modern and modern work with contemporary, reconceiving migrants as crucial agents of change. Scholars and artists track people on the move within the continent and without, drawing a significant map for the cultural history of migration around Europe.

An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526166180/9781526166180.xml



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'Highly imaginative in conception and design, this book oscillates between medieval and modern to consider the migrant, the border-breaker, the refugee (lacking the romantic, time-honoured status of “the exile”). Decentring anglocentric approaches, its contributors consider how written and visual arts might variously offer, for those lacking homelands, some place to live.'
David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: A premodern cultural history
1 Astrolabe: from ‘mathematical jewel’ to cultural connector – Pedro M. P. Raposo

Part II: Migrating in Spanish
2 The expulsion of the moriscos: still more questions than answers – James S. Amelang
3 Translating migrant precarity in Rachid Nini’s Diario de un ilegal – Anna Tybinko

Part III: Migrating in Italian
4 “The world is my homeland”: exile and migration from Ibn Hamdis to Dante – Akash Kumar
5 Superman in Italy: the power of the refugee artist – Saskia Ziolkowski
6 Porta d’Europa: monumentality, entropy and migration on Lampedusa – Tenley Bick

Part IV: Migrating in French
7 Calais enclave: fictions for locking in and opening up – Helen Solterer
8 Calais campscape: a short history of immigration deterrence at the French-British border – Vincent Joos and Eric Leleu

Part V: Arts of migration
9 In Transit: arts of migration around Europe – The Nasher Museum Collective
10 Cornered – Raquel Salvatella de Prada

Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 08/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781526166166, 978-1526166166
      ISBN10: 152616616X
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      European history: medieval period, middle ages Migration, immigration and emigration

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthetic and social activity of making, one practised by migrants on the move and also by those who represent their lives in an act of support. Adopting a multilingual approach, the book interprets the aesthetics and political practices developed by and with migrants in Spain, Italy and France. It juxtaposes early modern and modern work with contemporary, reconceiving migrants as crucial agents of change. Scholars and artists track people on the move within the continent and without, drawing a significant map for the cultural history of migration around Europe.

      An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526166180/9781526166180.xml



      Trade Review

      'Highly imaginative in conception and design, this book oscillates between medieval and modern to consider the migrant, the border-breaker, the refugee (lacking the romantic, time-honoured status of “the exile”). Decentring anglocentric approaches, its contributors consider how written and visual arts might variously offer, for those lacking homelands, some place to live.'
      David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Part I: A premodern cultural history
      1 Astrolabe: from ‘mathematical jewel’ to cultural connector – Pedro M. P. Raposo

      Part II: Migrating in Spanish
      2 The expulsion of the moriscos: still more questions than answers – James S. Amelang
      3 Translating migrant precarity in Rachid Nini’s Diario de un ilegal – Anna Tybinko

      Part III: Migrating in Italian
      4 “The world is my homeland”: exile and migration from Ibn Hamdis to Dante – Akash Kumar
      5 Superman in Italy: the power of the refugee artist – Saskia Ziolkowski
      6 Porta d’Europa: monumentality, entropy and migration on Lampedusa – Tenley Bick

      Part IV: Migrating in French
      7 Calais enclave: fictions for locking in and opening up – Helen Solterer
      8 Calais campscape: a short history of immigration deterrence at the French-British border – Vincent Joos and Eric Leleu

      Part V: Arts of migration
      9 In Transit: arts of migration around Europe – The Nasher Museum Collective
      10 Cornered – Raquel Salvatella de Prada

      Index

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