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Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Media -- Literature -- Cinema -- Part I Media -- Invaders, Aliens and Criminals: Metaphors and Spaces in the Media Definition of Migration and Security Policies (Marco Binotto) -- The Invader, or About Immigration -- The Alien, or About Contamination -- The Criminal, or About Crime News -- From Battle to War -- The Journalistic Construction of 'Emergenza Lampedusa': The 'Arab Spring' and the 'Landings' Issue in Media Representations of Migration (Marco Bruno) -- The Italian Media and the Political Upheavals of 2011 in the Mediterranean Region -- Stepping Back to 2008-2010: The Removal of Arrivals by Sea -- The Media as an Arena of the Representation and Social Construction of the Migratory Phenomenon -- Some Notes on Research Methods and Processes -- Representative Patterns of the 'Arrival Issue' in the News Media: The Journalistic Construction of an 'Iconic' Image -- From Language to Representation: The Construction of the Migrant as a Threat -- Continuing with Language: Lampedusa and the Definition of Social Alarm -- The Definition of Migration as a 'Social Problem' on Television: Argumentation, Framing and a 'TV Politics of Numbers' -- The Image of Italy and Immigrants to Italy in the Media: A Destination or Place of Damnation? (Mahmoud Zidan) -- The Language of the Media -- People and people -- Human Beings and Rights? -- Media and Migration: Some Linguistic Reflections (Federico Faloppa) -- Framing Migration: News Images and (Meta-)Communicative Messages (Andrea Pogliano) -- The Frame and the Single Event: The Case of 'the Clash of via Sarpi' -- Moving Away from the Single Event: Visual Framing Over Time -- Visibility as a More General Framing of Immigration in the Media -- Conclusions The Silence of Migrants: The Underrepresentation of Migrant Voices in the Italian Mainstream Media (Gabriela Jacomella) -- Training Journalists on Immigration: Experiences and Reflections (Anna Meli) -- Information and Awareness Experiences: A Starting Point -- Obstacles and Opportunities for Intercultural Training in Editorial Offices -- Ethnicity and Organizational Processes in 'Mixed' Media: The Case of Yalla Italia (Eugénie Saitta) -- Contributors -- A Cultural Elite -- Young People' of Arabic Origin and / or Muslims -- Competing Rationales: Journalistic versus Ethnic -- Amateurs Used as Witnesses of their Daily Life -- Towards Ethnic Journalism -- Top-Down Decision-Making Process -- Part 2 Literature -- Beyond Hybridization: Metaphors and New Visions in 'Migrant Literature' in Italian (Grazia Biorci) -- Mediation among Paradigms -- Adhesion to Italian Paradigms -- Calques -- Hybridization and New Coinage -- Processes of Translation and Self-Translation -- Methodology -- Amara Lakhous, Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio and Divorzio all'islamica -- Duška Kovačević, L'orecchino di Zora -- Fatima Ahmed, Aukuí -- Garane Garane, Il latte è buono -- Christiana de Caldas Brito, Qui e là. Racconti -- Mihail Mircea Butcovan, Allunaggio di un immigrato innamorato -- Conclusions -- Narrative Strategies, Literary Imaging and Reflections on Identity: Constructing a Narrative Community in Italy (Nora Moll) -- Narrative Strategies: 'Consistent' and 'Divergent' Trends -- 'Imaging' Italy in Literature: Between Demystification and Constructing Identity -- 'Skin Memories': Expressions of Corporeality in Recent Trans-national Writing in Italian (Emma Bond) -- The Decentred Gaze of Postcolonial Literature on Italians Past and Present (Maria Grazia Negro) -- The First Autobiographies of the 1990s -- The Novels of the Mature Phase The Latest Phase of Production (2010) -- New Postcolonial Art Forms: Timira as Multi-Genre Object Between Cinema and Literature (Daniele Comberiati and Linde Luijnenburg) -- Situating Timira within the Italo-Somali Postcolonial Context -- The Authors: Two 'Ghost-Writers'? -- Multiple Layers of Narrative Production -- Timira's Significance in the Cinematic Tradition -- Timira as a New Postcolonial Art Form? -- The Postcolonial Afterlife of Primo Levi (Derek Duncan) -- Migrant Writing as (Self-)Translation:The Transnational Trajectory of Giose Rimanelli (Loredana Polezzi) -- Multiple Narratives of Migration -- From Autobiography to Self-Translation -- Conclusion -- Part 3 Cinema -- Imagined Journeys: Italian Directors and Immigration (Vito Zagarrio) -- New Directors, New Films -- Italian Filmmakers and Representations of the Other -- Recurring Themes and Topics -- Accented Voices in Contemporary Italian Cinema (Guido Bonsaver) -- Federico Bondi's Mar nero: Channelling the Geographic Unconscious (Millicent Marcus) -- Appendix: Credits for Mar nero -- Migration Told Through Noir Conventions in La sconosciuta and Gomorra (Paolo Russo) -- La sconosciuta and Noir Tradition: Stella, Mildred and Irena -- Gomorra: The Reality of Horror as Routine -- Nigerian Migrants, Nollywood Videos and the Emergence of an 'Anti-Humanitarian' Representation of Migration in Italian Cinema (Alessandro Jedlowski) -- Akpegi Boyz: Nollywood Abroad, Exploitation Films and the 'Aesthetics of Outrage' -- Torino Boys: Pop Culture, Parody and the Making of an Italian Afrocentric Film about Migration -- Sotto il Sole Nero: Mimesis, duplicity and the impossible truth of the Migrant's Experience -- Conclusion: Anti-Humanitarian Representations and the Deconstruction of the Italian Hegemonic Gaze on Migration Witnessing History, Recounting Suffering: The Documentary Project of Andrea Segre (Áine O'Healy) -- Roaming to Rome: Archiving and Filming Migrant Voices in Italy (Alessandro Triulzi) -- The Archive of Migrant Memories -- Narrated Memory and Audiovisual Memory -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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