T H E J O U R N A L O F 11, no. 1 (Summer 2020) HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING TRANSCULTURAL S T U D I E S 11, no. 1 (Summer 2020) T H E J O U R N A L O F TRANSCULTURAL S T U D I E S EDITORIAL NOTE Diamantis Panagiotopoulos and Michael Radich vi ARTICLES Anne Ring Petersen Transculturality, Postmigration, and the Imagining of a New Sense of Belonging 1 THEMED SECTION: FLUID MEDITERRANEAN MEMORIES Katia Pizzi The Granular Texture of Memory: Trieste between Mitteleuropa and the Mediterranean 34 Gianmarco Mancosu Sardinian, Italian, Mediterranean: The Significance of Cagliari’s Liminality in Post-War Documentaries and Newsreels 48 Joseph McGonagle Transculturality in Algiers: The Cinema of Merzak Allouache 67 iiiThe Journal of Transcultural Studies 11, no. 1 (Summer 2020) The Journal of Transcultural Studies 11, no. 1 (Summer 2020) Editors: Monica Juneja, Global Art History Joachim Kurtz, Intellectual History Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Classical Archaeology Michael Radich, Buddhist Studies Rudolf G. Wagner†, Chinese Studies Managing Editor: Sophie Florence Editorial Board: Christiane Brosius, Antje Fluechter, Madeleine Herren, Birgit Kellner, Axel Michaels, Barbara Mittler, Vladimir Tikhonov, and Roland Wenzlhuemer Editorial Assistants: Kush Depala, Joshua Elwer, and Mhairi Montgomery The Journal of Transcultural Studies is edited at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) and published by Heidelberg University Publishing. The journal is freely available at http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/ (open access). ISSN: 2191-6411 iv Contributors Contributors to this Issue: Anne Ring Petersen is Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on installation art, transculturality in contemporary art, and the interrelations between art, migration, postmigration, and globalization. Her recent publications include the co-authored book Reframing Migration, Diversity and the Arts: The Postmigrant Condition with Moritz Schramm et al. (Routledge, 2019), the co-edited anthology The Culture of Migration: Politics, Aesthetics and Histories with Sten P. Moslund and Moritz Schramm (I.B. Tauris, 2015), as well as the monographs Migration into Art: Transcultural Identities and Art-making in a Globalised World (Manchester University Press, 2017) and Installation Art: Between Image and Stage (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015). Her current research project, Togetherness in Difference: Reimagining Identities, Communities and Histories through Art (2019–), combines postmigrant and transcultural perspectives to explore how contemporary artists grapple with the conflictual societal dynamics that are integral to the evolving sociocultural diversity of Europe. Katia Pizzi is the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London and Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Dr. Pizzi has published extensively on the history and memory of the upper Adriatic region, including the books Trieste. Una frontiera letteraria (Vita Activa, 2019), Trieste: italianità, triestinità e male di frontiera (Gedit, 2007), and A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste (Sheffield Academic Press, 2001). Dr. Pizzi’s research interests also span modern and contemporary Italian literature, European modernism, and technology and culture. Her most recent book is Italian Futurism and the Machine (Manchester University Press, 2019). Gianmarco Mancosu received his first doctorate in Italian Colonial History at the University of Cagliari (2015) and has successfully defended his second doctoral thesis at the University of Warwick (2020). His research interests include Italian colonial history and culture, production of films about the fascist empire and decolonization, the post-colonial presence of Italian communities in Africa, and the cultural memories and legacies of colonialism in modern and contemporary Italy. Dr. Mancosu has published extensively on these topics and is currently working on a monograph that explores fascist film propaganda about the Ethiopian war. He was Luisa Selis Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2018) where he studied the history and various vThe Journal of Transcultural Studies 11, no. 1 (Summer 2020) belongings of Sardinian migrant communities in Europe, and worked as a Research Assistant for the project “The Dialectics of Modernity: Modernism, Modernization, and the Arts under European Dictatorships” (University of Manchester, 2018). He is currently cultore della materia (assistant) in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cagliari. Joseph McGonagle is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the French-speaking World at The University of Manchester. He is the author of Representing Ethnicity in Contemporary French Visual Culture (Manchester University Press, 2017) and co-author, with Edward Welch, of Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria (Liverpool University Press, 2013). He was Principal Investigator for the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, “Post-Colonial Negotiations: Visualising the Franco-Algerian Relationship in the Post-War Period” (2008–11) and co- curator of the “New Cartographies: Algeria–France–UK” exhibition held at Cornerhouse, Manchester in 2011. His research has been published in multiple journals including: Studies in European Cinema, Studies in French Cinema, French Cultural Studies, Journal of Romance Studies, and L’Esprit créateur.