| Description |
331 pages ; 23 cm |
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EBL ebooks online
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 5.1.Gustin's influence and other general models of reference -- 5.2.Different letters for different columns -- 5.3.Life, rhetoric and fiction -- 6.Love and identity -- 6.1.Marriage and traditional family values -- 6.2.National topoi and transnational memories -- 6.3.The loving heart and the romantic gaze -- 6.4.Ethnic misogyny -- 6.5.Interethnic and interregional relationships -- 7.Mutable bodies -- 7.1.Unstable bodies -- 7.2.Self-beautification -- 8.Suffering migrants -- 8.1.Suffering and spaesamento -- 8.2.Migrants' bewilderment -- 8.3.Requests to Gustin for medical help -- 9.Suffering mothers -- 9.1.The manmiumo stereotype -- 9.2.Migrants' Mothers -- 9.3.Migrant mothers -- 9.4.Death of a wife and mother -- 10.Suffering minds -- 10.1.Madness and culturapopolare -- 10.2.The impossible dialogue -- 11.Conclusion |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Writing the migrant body -- 1.1.A different approach to the history of Italians in Australia -- 1.2.Italian migrants in Australia -- 1.3.Reconstruction, the Cold War, and the economic boom -- 1.4.II salotto di Lena and Inchiostro sinipatico -- 1.5.Original letters as an historical source -- 1.6.Theoretical note -- pt. 1 Mamma Lena's columns -- 2.Gustin's ideology -- 2.1.Gustin's personal, cultural and ideological background -- 2.2.Italian catholic mother and teacher -- 2.3.The obscene underside of ideology -- 3.Editing the body -- 3.1.The deformation of historical sources -- 3.2.Rewriting for II salotto diLena -- 3.3.Public responses in Inchiostro simpatico -- 4.Private responses -- 4.1.The process of negotiation -- 4.2.The medicalisation of sexuality -- 4.3.An emblematic case of desired transsexuality -- 4.4.Reading, writing, and living -- pt. 2 Migrants' bodies -- 5.Migrants' letters -- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Mamma Lena, 1914-2003
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Australian newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.
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Immigrants -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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Italians -- Australia -- History.
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Italians -- Australia -- Social conditions.
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Italians -- Australia -- Social life and customs.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007504 -- Social aspects.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002758
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| Author |
ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2011003928 |
| ISBN |
9783034304665 |
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