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Italy and the Mediterranean

Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Norma Bouchard
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  2. Valerio Ferme
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Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Return to the Mediterranean in Contemporary Western Thought

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 13-42

  4. Interlude

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 43-69

  5. Geophilosophies of the Mediterranean

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 71-94

  6. Sounds of Southern Shores

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 95-119

  7. Screening the Souths through Southern Eyes

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 121-154

  8. Writing the Mediterraneity of the Italian Souths

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 155-190

  9. The Mediterranean of Migrant, Postcolonial, and Exile Writers

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 191-224

  10. Postface

    • Norma Bouchard, Valerio Ferme
    Pages 225-227

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 229-319
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About this book

The Mediterranean has always loomed large in the history and culture of Italy, and since the 1980s this relationship has been represented in ever more varied forms as both national and regional identities have evolved within a globalized context. This interdisciplinary volume puts Italian artists (writers, musicians, and filmmakers) and intellectuals (philosophers, sociologists, and political scientists) in conversation with each other to explore Italy's Mediterranean identity while questioning the boundaries between Self and Other, and between native and foreign bodies. By moving beyond nation-centric models of cultural and ethnic homogeneity based on myths of progress and rationality, these wide-ranging contributions fashion new ways of belonging that transcend the cultural, economic, religious, and social categories that have characterized post Cold War Italy and Europe.

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“The book is both ambitious and meticulously researched and, insofar as it invites us to rethink the place of Italy in relation not only to the Mediterranean region but also to Europe and the rest of the world, it represents a timely critical contribution to the field of contemporary Italian studies.” (Nick Dines, H-SAE, H-Net Reviews, April,2018)

'Carefully researched and persuasively argued, this book examines the new and provocative discourses on the Mediterranean that have taken shape in the Italian context since the end of the Cold War as well as the simultaneous emergence of a distinctive tendency in cultural production - in music, cinema, and literature - that resonates with similar social and geophilosophical concerns. It offers a path-breaking contribution to Italian cultural studies.' - Áine O'Healy, Loyola Marymount University, USA

'In the past thirty years Italian public culture has been increasingly defined in terms of its relationship to the Mediterranean. In Italy and the Mediterranean Bouchard and Ferme present a thorough and compelling analysis of how intellectuals, musicians, filmmakers, and writers have re-elaborated Italian identities and successfully pushed the boundaries of national belonging. This book provides a rich and comprehensive study of contemporary Italian culture that will be of interest to scholars in various academic fields - from history to media studies, philosophy, cultural geography, music, and literature.' - Michela Ardizzoni, University of Colorado Boulder, USA, and author of North/South, East/West: Mapping Italianness on Television and Beyond Monopoly: Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media

About the authors

Author Norma Bouchard: Norma Bouchard is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. Author Valerio Ferme: Valerie C. Ferme is the Chair of the Department of French & Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

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