Writing Migration through the Body builds a study of the body as a mutable site for negotiating and articulating the transnational experience of mobility. At its core stands a selection of recent migration stories in Italian, which are brought into dialogue with related material from cultural studies and the visual arts. Occupying no single disciplinary space, and drawing upon an elaborate theoretical framework ranging from phenomenology to anthropology, human geography and memory studies, this volume explores the ways in which the skin itself operates as a border, and brings to the surface the processes by which a sense of place and self are described and communicated through the migrant body. Through investigating key concepts and practices of transnational embodied experience, the book develops the interpretative principle that the individual bodies which move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions,ideas, memories ¿ and also histories and possible futures ¿ are enacted.

1. Introduction. 'Trans-scripts'.- 2. Chapter 2. 'Signing with a scar': Inscriptions, Narration, Identity.- 3. Chapter 3. Trans-gender, trans-national: Crossing binary lines.- 4. Chapter 4. Trans-national mothering: Corporeal trans-plantations of care.- 5. Chapter 5. Revolting folds: Disordered and disciplined bodies.- 6. Chapter 6. Absent bodies, haunted spaces.- 7. Afterword.

Emma Bond
is Senior Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her previous publications include
Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini
(2012), and the co-edited volumes
Freud and Italian Culture
(2009),
Il confine liquido: rapporti letterari e interculturali fra Italia e Albania
(2013),
Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative
(2015) and
Goliarda Sapienza in Context: Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture
(2016).