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"Il clandestino è l’ebreo di oggi" : imprints of the Shoah on migration to Italy

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Date
15/12/2016
Author
Duncan, Derek Egerton
Keywords
Shoah
Migration
Mediterranean
BM Judaism
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Abstract
Drawing on Rey Chow’s notion of “entanglement” and Michael Rothberg’s work on “multidirectional memory”, I look at the ways in which certain visual, lexical, and historical representations and tropes operate to create points of connection between the Shoah and contemporary migration to Italy across the Mediterranean. I argue that the deployment of these images is not intended to indicate similarities, or indeed, dissimilarities, between historical events. The network of association which is produced offers a space in which to critically and creatively interrogate past and present, and their possible interconnections. I then analyse in detail the work of novelist, Igiaba Scego, and film-maker, Dagmawi Yimer, to uncover an “entanglement” bringing together cultural memories of the Shoah, and silenced histories of Italian colonialism to indict political and cultural practices informing responses to death by drowning in the Mediterranean.
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Duncan , D E 2016 , ' "Il clandestino è l’ebreo di oggi" : imprints of the Shoah on migration to Italy ' , Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History , vol. 10 , pp. 60-88 . https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/810
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Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/810
ISSN
2037-741X
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2016 the author. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY)
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http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/focus.php?id=384
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9987

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