Identity, Culture, and Communication among Italian Americans
Call for book chapter proposals on Italian American identity, for edited book.
This book aims to explore how Italian Americans communicate their identities in specific locations around the United States. While there has been some research conducted on migration patterns, sociology, and folklore of Italian Americans, there is very little documentation of their communication experience and of regional differences in those experiences. This is a unique opportunity for communication scholars to contribute to the area of intercultural communication, and to begin an interdisciplinary conversation between the two fields. We invite proposals that reveal the multiple and complex cultural constructions of Italian American identity represented in local communities. This volume will approach topics from a number of critical and theoretical perspectives.
Essays may explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- How Italian Americans form and sustain identities through language, speech acts, rituals, cultural artifacts, media, or networks.
- What Italian Americans make of their own communication practices.
- The cultural contexts of Italian American communication.
- Italian American interpersonal communication.
- Local forms of communication in Italian American communities.
- How Italian Americans construct or share cultural spaces in their communities.
- Symbolic meanings in Italian American communication practices.
- Italian American self-representation versus media representation.
- Italian Americans communication with other ethnic groups.
Please submit proposals of 300-500 words (as word file) or inquiries to Denise Scannell, Assistant Professor, New York City College of Technology, no later than October 15, 2013.
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