Endings

L’America

25.01.2016 in Endings

Officina Zoè – L’America Click on the image below to watch the video. Many young men left Italy for America in search of work, leaving the young women in their communities behind. Many of them did not write home or come back to Italy, and…

no comment

Amara Terra Mia

25.01.2016 in Endings

Click on the image below to watch the video. Lyrics by Domenico Modungo sung by Ginerva Di Marco Sole alla valle e sole alla collina. Per le campagne non c’è più nessuno. Ritornello: Addio, addio amore, io vado via. Amara terra mia, amara e bella……

no comment

Valparaiso: migrantes y disidentes – Chile

20.01.2016 in Endings

The Cementerio de Disidentes (Dissidents Cemetery) in Valparaiso, Chile is located on the Cerro Panteón (Pantheon Hill) one of the city’s 42 hills. The site holds the three oldest cemeteries in the city: Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 and the Cemetery of Dissidents which…

no comment

Naples

03.11.2015 in Endings

  Margaret Hills de Zarate’s research involves an examination of the role of objects in mediating constructions of identity in relation to Italian transgenerational migration.  One research question is how processes of translation occur within material culture, in particular, those processes that are intermedial and relate…

no comment