Claudia Durastanti’s and Alberto Prunetti’s Mobilities across the Mediterranean: The Cultural Labor of (Post-)Working-Class literature

Abstract

This chapter focuses on Claudia Durastanti (Brooklyn 1984) and Alberto Prunetti (Piombino 1973), two (post)working-class writers. Durastanti and Prunetti embody the condition of precarity, also performing multiple roles within the cultural industry, thus altering the terms of articulation of a working-class identity and redefining the Mediterranean as a site of both artistic and activist practice. It aims to show how in their literary and wider cultural work they engage with the crisis-ridden Mediterranean and the Global South from a (post)working-class perspective, by fashioning connections between cultural memory and the projecting of futurity, and individuality and transnational collectivity.