This book on cultural studies aims to identify the status of the field in Italian cultural studies. It contains articles that will interest a variety of undergraduate and graduate classes and it is an invaluable resource for scholars of Italian studies.

Contents   1.Definitions and Theory David Forgacs “Intellectual and Subaltern Groups between Structure and Discourse: The Difficult Politics of Cultural Studies” Michele Cometa (Translated by Marie Orton) “Non Finito: The Form of Italian Cultural Studies” Elena Pulcini “Community and Globalization” Paolo Campolonghi “‘Le ceneri di Pasolini’: The Role of the Intellectuals from Nation to Alienation” Loredana Polezzi “Polylingual Writing and the Politics of Language in Today’s Italy” Paola Zaccaria “The Mediterranean Sea: Open Port or Border Wall?”   2.Practice (Case Studies) Emilio Berrocal “‘Between His Gesture and My Smile’: Hip Hop Culture in Italy through the Figure of massiccio” Derek Duncan “‘Is It Because I’m a Wop?’: Queer Diaspora and Postcolonial Italy” Toshio Miyake “Italy Made in Japan: Occidentalism, Self-Orientalism, and Italianism in Contemporary Japan” Alessandro Dal Lago (Translated by Marie Orton) “Italy’s Unmentionable Racism: Reflections on the Image of Foreigners in Italian Culture” Valerie McGuire “Arcadian Histories: Italian Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean”