Goffredo Polizzi is a founding member of CRAAAZI - Centro di ricerca e Archivio Autonomo transfemministaqueer ‘Alessandro Zijno’ (Bologna, Italy), where he is also a Research Fellow. He received a Joint Phd in Italian Studies from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) and from Monash University (Australia). He has published several articles and book chapters on Postcolonial Theory, Queer and LGBT political cultures in Italy, representations of gender, race and sexuality in contemporary Italian literature and cinema.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Transnational Theories and Transnational Histories of the SouthChapter 1: Transnational Theories of the SouthChapter 2: Transnational Histories of the Italian South: Emigration, Colonialism, Migration to ItalyPart II: Representations of the Italian South in Contemporary Italian LiteratureChapter 3. Languaging, Body, and Translation in Giulio Angioni's Una ignota compagnia (1992)Chapter 4. The South as a Heterotopia: Evelina Santangelo's Senzaterra (2008)Chapter 5. Transnational Epistemologies of the South in Christiana De Caldas Brito’s Colpo di mare (2018)Part III: New Representations of the Italian South in Contemporary Italian Transnational cinemaChapter 6. Race, Gender and Sexuality in Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma (2011)Chapter 7. Emma Dante’s Via Castellana Bandiera from the Page to the Screen: Changing Politics of SexualityChapter 8. Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea (2015): De-Centring the Hegemonic Gaze on the SouthConclusionBibliographyFilmography

"Reimagining the Italian South is an exciting and original study that reappraises critical understandings of Italy’s South in the light of inward migration. Informed by a sophisticated theoretical framework uniting postcolonial, transnational and translation theory with critical constructions of gender, sexuality and race, Polizzi’s book addresses how contemporary literature and film reconceptualise the Italian South as a border-space where national identities and discourses come undone, and where new knowledges, identities and meanings are articulated. This fascinating, perceptive and rigorous study provides a new perspective on the Italian South and makes a rich contribution to its reconfiguration, beyond existing understandings of territory, culture and nation."Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol