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Serie: Italian modernities
PaperbackEngels9781789977028
7-8-2020
Sebastiano Vassalli (1941–2015) engaged in an ambitious project to narrate Italy, the nation, its people and its pathologies. For Vassalli, chimeras are the myths that have repeatedly ensnared the nation, resulting in the social and political dysfunctions he denounces. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788743570
28-2-2019
The southern Italian city of Matera was dubbed a «national disgrace» in the immediate post-war period due to media and political focus on its distinctive cave homes, the Sassi. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789972245
15-10-2019
Exploring the contribution of Italy to our understanding of both the history of homosexuality and European modernism, this ground-breaking study analyses three queer modernists - writer Giovanni Comisso, painter and writer Filippo de Pisis, and painter Corrado Cagli. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788741750
30-4-2021
QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN’S WRITINGS is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis in Italian literature in general, and in Italian women’s writings in particular. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788740180
22-3-2019
The on-going debate on the legacies of European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context. This book is a literary and intellectual history both of the reception of European Orientalism in Risorgimento Italy, and of the birth and development of an Italian Orientalist expression in the post-unification and fascist periods. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781788745987
23-6-2021
This book explores the representation of industrial labor in Italian literature and film from the 1950s through the 1970s. Italian literature and film are shown to interpret – and influence – developments in labor during this period, from agriculture to industry to information technologies. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789975109
26-12-2022
China was the destination of choice for hundreds of prominent Italian authors during the twentieth century, and their travel narratives helped to shape Italian representations of the country. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781789978599
27-4-2022
This book reconstructs the history of Italian electronic literature, looking at creative practices across literature, electronic and digital media from the early days of computers to the social media age. Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034319256
29-4-2015
This book is a journey into the thought and poetry of Giacomo Leopardi. It sheds new light on his compound of poetic imagination and philosophical complexity using different disciplines and approaches (film studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory), showing the relevance of his thought today in the post-human era. Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034319768
10-1-2016
How have events such as military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq or the protests in Tahrir Square been represented by writers, journalists and intellectuals in Italy? Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034318204
17-3-2015
Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism between 1860 and 1939 are significantly more numerous than has been asserted, opening up important new perspectives on discourses of sexuality in Italy. Meer
PaperbackEngels9783039115747
30-3-2011
Cinema has played a key role in articulating the impact and legacies of the so-called anni di piombo in Italy, the years of intra-national political terrorism that lasted from 1969 until well into the 1980s. Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034318846
26-2-2019
This book reframes the debate around migration in the Mediterranean, and specifically around Lampedusa, by exploring how art forms – including works by Aida Silvestri, Bouchra Khalili, Isaac Julien, Maya Ramsay, Dagmawi Yimer and Broomberg & Chanarin – have become a platform for subverting the dominant narrative of migration. Meer
PaperbackEngels9783034319348
29-7-2016
In the period 1940–1965 the female prostitute featured in at least 10 per cent of Italian-made films. This book explains why she was so prevalent in Italian cinema of this period and offers a new account of her on-screen presence. Meer