Italian items in domestic spaces

Abstract In their migration, people carry objects with them, and relocate them through physical spaces across cultural boundaries. Handed down generations, these become signs of ethnicity beyond appearance purpose. Examining the variety literary representations subsequent translation contributes to analysis how material culture migrates within distant systems from one language another. This essay focuses on domestic depicted by two Italian authors writing about experience a migrant coming-of-age in United States: Helen Barolini Chiara Barzini. Using diverse multilingual (self-)translation strategies, they highlight difficulties bridging American selfhood an household relocated abroad. doing so, relationship underlines diasporic is entangled achievement self-confidence independence as women context diaspora.