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Volume 8, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 2047-7368
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Abstract

In the context of global migrations, ‘new Italians’ have emerged in a group of mainstream TV series, among which (‘Anything can happen’) (RAI 1, 2015–18) stands out as the remake of the American This article argues that this process of cultural translation reveals tensions over the negotiation of national identity in Italian society, due to recent migrations and the submerged colonial past. Through the adoption of an intersectional approach, the analysis of the interracial relationship between Feven, an Eritrean-born woman, and Carlo will highlight that the postracial discourses underlying are superseded by postcolonial ones in the remake. I demonstrate that the Othering of Feven through sexualization and exoticization exposes the persistence of colonial stereotypes. However, the displacement of race onto gender preoccupations through the prism of postfeminism highlights the attempted ‘normalization’ of the Other, further engaging with the specificities of the Italian context through its association with religion.

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Keyword(s): global migrations; intersectionality; Italian colonialism; Italian national identity; postcolonial discourses; postfeminist popular culture; television series; Tutto può succedere

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