1st Edition
Transnational Italian Comics
Introduction: transnational Italian comics - memory, migration, transformation
Barbara Spadaro and Daniele Comberiati
1. Comics and transgenerational memory in Italy. The case of Dylan Dog
Daniele Comberiati
2. Collective biographies and transnational history in Primavere e autunni, Chinamen, and La macchina zerø
Chiara Giuliani
3. Wonder feminisms: comics-based artivism against gender violence in Italy, intersectionality and transnationalism
Nicoletta Mandolini
4. Lines telling ‘real’stories: a conversation with Elettra Stamboulis on the rise and development of graphic journalism in Italy
Barbara Spadaro and Elettra Stamboulis
5. Borders, migrations, translations: Italian comics journalism reframing the Mediterranean crossings
Alessia Mangiavillano
6. Mapping transnational lives: patterns of dislocation and reorientation in contemporary carto-graphic memoirs
Barbara Pezzotti and Francesco Ricatti
Biography
Barbara Spadaro is a cultural historian of Italian migration and colonialism. Her research develops transnational and translational approaches to comics, exploring intersections between feminist anticolonial epistemologies, archives, and the comics medium. She is Senior Lecturer in Italian History and Culture at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Daniele Comberiati is Associate Professor in Italian Literature and Culture at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France. He published several works on transnational Italian comics, migrant and postcolonial Italian literature, and science fiction studies.
