- Docente: Fulvio Pezzarossa
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 0973)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in LANGUAGE, SOCIETY AND COMMUNICATION (cod. 0982)
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
Course contents
ILLEGAL TRAVELLERS. MIGRANTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Italian medias and popular imagery are overwhelmed by news about the constant and tragic arrival of illegal immigrants on the coasts of our rich and happy nation. The dangerous boats used by migrants, however, are in fact the unfashionable side of the complex mobility system of a globalised Western world.
The foreign, sometimes hostile, individuals who appear on Italian shores travelling from poor, primitive, far-away places are immediately faced with destructive machines and threatening technologies, such as cars, trains, undergrounds, planes and industrial machinery. On the other hand, however, many migrants soon become able to exploit the resources of the new media with skill and creativity, and to develop complex international networks.
This course focuses on the close-reading of literary texts composed by twentieth-century Italian immigrants and present-day international migrants to Italy in order to explore the various and complex experiences of real and virtual travellers as well as the significant developments brought about by migration processes both in the home and destination countries.
Readings/Bibliography
Thereading list will be available online in January 2013.
Teaching methods
FRONTAL LESSONS
Lessons will take place in the first cicle of the second semester (february-march 2013).
First lesson 20 february.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
10,15- 11,45 a.m.
Aula E Presidenza di Lingue, Via F. Re, 8
Assessment methods
ORAL EXAMINATION
The programme and the bibliography are the same both for students who attend and for students who do not attend the lessons.
Office hours
See the website of Fulvio Pezzarossa