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 formed families with ‘Americanas’ (American women) leaving these women in…Continue Reading L’America
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… Cieli infiniti e volti come pietra. Mani incallite ormai senza…Continue Reading Amara Terra Mia
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 lies in front of Cemetery No. 1 and next to…Continue Reading Valparaiso: migrantes y disidentes – Chile
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 to leaving and arriving. These photographs, taken in the Quartieri Spagnoli in Naples constitute part…Continue Reading Naples