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Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S. (Paperback)
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Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S. (Paperback)
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This book considers cultural representations of four different
types of labor within Italian and U.S. contexts: stories and songs
that chronicle the lives of Italian female rice workers, or
mondine; testimonials and other narratives about female domestic
servants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century
(including contemporary immigrants from non-western countries);
cinematic representations of unwaged household work among Italian
American women; and photographs of female immigrant cannery labor
in California. These categories of labor suggest the diverse ways
in which migrant women workers take part in the development of what
Antonio Gramsci calls national popular culture, even as they are
excluded from dominant cultural narratives. The project looks at
Italian immigration to the U.S., contemporary immigration to Italy,
and internal migration within Italy, the emphasis being on what
representations of migrant women workers can tell us about cultural
and political change. In addition to the idea of national popular
culture, Gramsci's discussion of the social role of subalterns and
organic intellectuals, the politics of folklore (or 'common sense')
and everyday culture, and the necessity of alliance-formations
among different social groups all inform the textual analyses. An
introduction, which includes a reconsideration of Gramsci's
theories in light of feminist theory, argues that the lives of
subaltern classes (such as migrant women) are inherently connected
to struggles for hegemony. A brief epilogue, on a lesser-known
essay by photographer Tina Modotti, closes the discussion.
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