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Italian Motherhood on Screen pp 211–232Cite as

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Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema

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In this chapter, Faleschini Lerner considers the roles of migrant mothers in four Italian fiction films that make women key narrative players: Andrea Segre’s Io sono Li (2011), Federico Bondi’s Mar Nero (2008), Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese (2011), and Io, l’altro by Mohsen Melliti (2006). She argues that the mothers in these films share a liquid experience of maternity insofar as they are associated visually with water as a metaphor for the instability of migrant lives in the postmodern era.

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    Giovanna Faleschini Lerner

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Faleschini Lerner, G. (2017). Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema. In: Faleschini Lerner, G., D’Amelio, M. (eds) Italian Motherhood on Screen. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56675-7_11

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