Objects in Italian Life and Culture: Fiction, Migration, and Artificiality
In: Italian and Italian American Studies
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction -- In-Between Matter and Fantasy -- Disconnections, Forms of Creative Engagement, and the Atmospheric Turn -- Modernist Malaise and Postmodern Dissociation -- Place and Identity-Making in the Migrant Context -- Public Display and the Celebration of Hyphenated Lives -- Fantasizing the Authentic -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2: Meaningful Places -- Definition -- Freud and the "Oceanic" Feeling of Happiness -- Heidegger's Process of Inhabitation -- House or Home? -- Home and the Poetic of Inhabiting
