Italian items in domestic spaces Representing Italianness through objects in the fiction of Helen Barolini and Chiara Barzini

Chianese, Francesco 2022. Italian items in domestic spaces Representing Italianness through objects in the fiction of Helen Barolini and Chiara Barzini. Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association 10.1075/tis.21018.chi

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Abstract

In their migration, people carry objects with them, and relocate them through physical spaces and across cultural boundaries. Handed down through generations, these objects become signs of ethnicity beyond their appearance and purpose. Examining the variety of the literary representations of objects and their subsequent translation contributes to the analysis of how material culture migrates within distant cultural systems and from one language to another. This essay focuses on domestic objects depicted by two Italian authors writing about the experience of a migrant coming-of-age in the United States: Helen Barolini and Chiara Barzini. Using diverse multilingual and (self-)translation strategies, they highlight through cultural translation the difficulties of bridging their Italian and American selfhood within an Italian household relocated abroad. In doing so, their relationship with objects underlines how their diasporic experience is entangled with their achievement of self-confidence and independence as women within the context of the Italian diaspora.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Schools:	Modern Languages
Publisher:	John Benjamins Publishing
ISSN:	1932-2798
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	21 June 2022
Date of Acceptance:	24 April 2022
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2022 18:02
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/150613

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