"Minor minorities" and Multiculturalism. Italian American and Jewish American Literature, a cura di Dorothy M. Figueira, è il libro che inaugura la collana “Italia, Americhe e altri mondi” del Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi ItaloAmericani (CISIA) dell’Università di Macerata, diretta da Marina Camboni e Valerio Massimo De Angelis. Il volume e la nuova collana saranno presentati giovedì 9 giugno alle ore 15 nell’ambito dei Colloqui eum. Con la prof.ssa Figueira e il prof. De Angelis dialogheranno il Presidente eum Luca De Benedictis e l’ex allievo della Scuola Studi Superiori “Giacomo Leopardi” Andrea Acqualagna. Sarà possibile seguire l’incontro, collegandosi ai canali YouTube e Facebook dell’Università di Macerata.

"Minor minorities" and Multiculturalism expands, enriches, and questions current notions of multiculturalism by integrating the study of the literature of two significant European immigrant groups in the United States (the Italians and the Jews) into larger theoretical theorizations of the Other in the American literature university curriculum. It seeks to reintroduce these two literatures, now significantly ignored, into this general literary discussion of alterity and ultimately question how they might figure in the multicultural and World Literature classroom. The comparison of these two immigrant literatures allows us to investigate how the discourse of race contributed to the configuration of ethnic identity, both by dominant White American culture and within these immigrant groups themselves. This volume also seeks to tie the study of these two immigrant literatures to pressing theoretical and pedagogical concerns, namely, the role of American ethnic literature in the multicultural classroom and its place in Comparative Literature and World Literature curricula.

Dorothy M. Figueira is a Distinguished Research Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Translating the Orient (1991), The Exotic: A Decadent Quest (1994), Aryans, Jews, and Brahmins (2002), Otherwise Occupied: Theories and Pedagogies of Alterity (2008), and The Hermeneutics of Suspicion (2015). She is the Honorary President of the International Comparative Literature Association.

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