Magazines of the Italian Diaspora. An ethnic way to modern magazines?

Authors

  • Martino Marazzi Università degli Studi di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62336/unibg.eac.35.554

Keywords:

Italian Journalism in the Diaspora, Italian-American Cultural Journalism, Divagando, Serial Fiction, Fotocrimine

Abstract

The study of the very articulated press of the Italian diaspora worldwide has finally produced, in recent years, a number of works of reference. Their approach has highlighted, in most cases, the sociohistorical and political aspects of that journalism. Our aim here is expanding this quest analyzing the interaction between, on the one hand, the impact outside the peninsula of Italian popular magazines of the 20th century, and on the other, the specificities of Italian popular culture in its diasporic, immigrant, component – in so doing, trying to shed light on the meaning, precisely, of its “Italianness” and of its “modernity”. In this context, the Italian American popular slick magazine Divagando acts as a litmus test for a reassessment of immigrant culture – poised as it is between new communicative codes and content-related proposals, and loyalty to an “ethnic” interpretation of American society, analysed through the lenses of new Italian fiction and of hard-boiled photostories.

 

 

Author Biography

Martino Marazzi, Università degli Studi di Milano

Martino Marazzi is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the State University of Milan. He has been visiting professor at New York University and a Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. His books include Through the Periscope (2022), La mia cara libertà e altri racconti (2022), Italexit (2019), Sbagli (2019), Danteum (2015), A occhi aperti (2011), and Voices of Italian America (2004). His essay Amelia was longlisted in The Best American Essays 2017. He collaborated with director Gianfranco Rosi at the script of Notturno (2020).

Published

21-07-2025

How to Cite

Marazzi, M. (2025). Magazines of the Italian Diaspora. An ethnic way to modern magazines?. Elephant & Castle, (35), 213–223. https://doi.org/10.62336/unibg.eac.35.554