Magazines of the Italian Diaspora. An ethnic way to modern magazines?
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https://doi.org/10.62336/unibg.eac.35.554Keywords:
Italian Journalism in the Diaspora, Italian-American Cultural Journalism, Divagando, Serial Fiction, FotocrimineAbstract
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.
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