Invectivity in literary and cinematic representations of migration in Italy (20th/21st centuries) (M)

• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317232170

The contemporary Italian studies sub-project M explores the narrated representations of invective constellations in migration contexts, in order to analyze the moderating and reflective potential of such narratives. In the second funding phase, the focus is on the connection to Italian colonialism: In current migration narratives, as well as in texts and films created during colonialism up to 1943. Constellation analysis will be used to examine how the respective presented modes of disparaging differentiation are motivated or epistemically linked.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1285: Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of disparagement
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Elisabeth Tiller