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Postcolonial Trauma In The Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community, Rosario Pollicino
Postcolonial Trauma In The Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community, Rosario Pollicino
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This study aims to recuperate the Italian collective remembering originating from the colonial offense in Libya. Focusing on works of testimony in different genres of contemporary literature written by the Italian former settlers in Libya, I analyze how these former settlers who moved to Libya have been subjected to different kinds of traumas by the Fascist government. I focus on how these traumas, individual and collective, are documented through these works and discuss how they continue to be relevant today. Drawing on sociology, anthropology, history, literary and trauma studies I argue that these cultural representations prove the existence of a …
The Pearl Of The Prairies: The History Of The Winnipeg Filipino Community, Jon G. Malek
The Pearl Of The Prairies: The History Of The Winnipeg Filipino Community, Jon G. Malek
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Canadian historical and national narratives often prize the creation of “White Canada” through immigration from European nations. Significant movements of people from the Asia-Pacific region often get left out of these narratives, even though Asian populations have been in Canada as long as white settlers. Furthermore, the growing body of Asian Canadian literature itself has developed a tunnel vision for East and South Asian immigrants, neglecting myriad other groups from regions such as Southeast Asia. While Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigrants have dominated immigration from Asia until recently, other groups such as Filipinos have long been living and working …