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{"title":"Italian Diaspora Studies","authors":"Joseph Francese","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.1976982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.1976982","url":null,"abstract":"Citt a d’autore. A luoghi di frontiera, di passaggio e spostamento, sia esso fisico o simbolico, confine geografico o soglia sul terreno della nostalgia, e dedicata la Parte V del volume, “Confini e culture.” La sezione e avviata da Anastasija Gjur cinova con una ricognizione dello sguardo di Claudio Magris su Trieste, all’intersezione tra identit a di frontiera e urgenza di situare la creazione del personaggio nel limine territoriale che lo distingue. Spalato e la Dalmazia, altri spazi identitari di crocevia e di multiformi radici culturali concresciute e sovrapposte, sono oggetto dello studio di Katarina Dalmatin su Esilio di Enzo Bettiza (1996). Elis Deghenghi Oluji c riflette sullo spaesamento, o meglio lo spossessamento dell’identit a comunitaria e urbana, vissuto a Pola dopo l’esodo che coinvolse quasi tutta la comunit a italiana alla conclusione del secondo conflitto mondiale. Il saggio analizza gli elementi distintivi di questa peculiare esperienza di dispersione identitaria nella narrativa delle scrittrici istro-quarnerine Gianna Dallemulle Ausenak, Ester Sardoz Barlessi e Nelida Milani. Il saggio che conclude il volume, per la penna di Caterina Romeo, interroga come potere e spazio si costruiscano a vicenda nella contro-mappatura proposta da una narrazione ibrida di film e racconto che avvicina banlieue parigina e citt a di Bologna. Come vediamo, non resta che l’imbarazzo della scelta: seguire l’invito ad approfondire uno degli spunti offerti da questa raccolta, o cogliere suggerimenti di tagli critici per camminare—fisicamente e immaginativamente—in una citt a corporea e letteraria di nostra scelta, perch e se e vero come ci diceva Calvino che di una citt a non apprezziamo (esclusivamente, aggiungerei) le sette o settantasette meraviglie, ma la risposta che d a ad una nostra domanda, questo volume ci invita a muoverci tra realt a e rappresentazione, tra strada e pagina, ispirandoci domande ad ogni crocevia. Potremmo cercare di capire di cosa sia davvero fatto lo spazio poroso che attraversiamo nella vita e sulla pagina, e da quale voce sia voluto, e di chi non parli, e perch e, e cosa ci stia dicendo, e come determini il soggetto, e come permei la costruzione narrativa... o cosa dica ad un noi diverso da noi, come nella migliore delle ipotesi sa fare la letteratura.","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"247 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48014683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Note on the New Cover","authors":"Lorenzo Fabbri, Ramsey Mcglazer","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.2017125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.2017125","url":null,"abstract":"The new cover of Italian Culture was designed by Arianna Lodeserto and Lilia Angela Cavallo and features a photograph by Marley Nichelle, a Charlottesville-based photojournalist whose statement on the image appears above. The photograph shows the statue of Columbus that stood in Richmond’s Byrd Park until its toppling on June 9, 2020. The uprisings prompted by the murder of George Floyd on May 25 were ongoing when, on June 9, “about a thousand protestors gathered,” according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, “to stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples.” In this context, “Protestors used ropes to pull down the approximately 8-foot statue, then moved it some 200 yards across the road ... and submerged it in Fountain Lake. According to a social media post, the statue was briefly set on fire.” But there was more than one post, as Nichelle notes when he refers to “Columbus Discovers Lake.” This headline or joking caption conveys some of the collective energy and exuberance of that moment of protest, which the journal’s new cover image records. “Columbus Discovers Lake” reminds us, in other words, that, for all their seriousness, the uprisings were also scenes of courageous reinvention. They were occasions for mourning but also for the demonstration and the celebration of “powers and solidarity.” We thank Marley for the photograph and Arianna and Lilia for their work designing the new cover. We hope that this cover, replacing the monumental and still-standing columns shown in journal’s former cover image, will serve as a reminder of the difference that collective “powers and solidarity” can make. But we also see the image as a welcome challenge to the field, as a question addressed to the study of Italian history, literature, and art. An ocean away from his native Genoa, Columbus finds himself in a different port, subject to a different fate, not enshrined but overthrown. And given the his abiding association with “Italian culture” in the United States, a certain familiar version, a received understanding, of this culture is overthrown with him. Before its fall, statue of Columbus in Richmond stood on","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"113 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48128578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Calvino, Cerrone, and the Catacoustic: An “Echo-logical” Reading1","authors":"Robert A. Rushing","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.1976972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.1976972","url":null,"abstract":"Catacoustics (an ancient term for the science of reflected sound, briefly championed by Lacoue-Labarthe) in fact tells us that the echo is never a partial and degraded repetition: while it is true that an echo repeats only a portion of the original signal, it does so in a way that also conveys a huge quantity of additional information that was not in the original signal—information that effectively describes the larger space in which the sound reverberates. In short, a catacoustic approach suggests that it is only in and with the echo that the sound is fully realized, and this realization or repletion of the origin happens in a way that demarcates and defines a space—something the mirror image does not gesture at. In this essay, I “listen by echo” in order to elaborate an “echo-logical” reading of Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and Christopher Cerrone’s opera of the novel, an opera that not only reflects on the question of reverberation and echo, but that also prolongs, amplifies and enriches Calvino’s original work, helping us to better discern both artists’ commitment to improving our political spaces and ecologies.","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"115 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43656277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imag(in)Ing Blackness in Italy: Redactions, Presence, and Media in Antonio Dikele Distefano’s Work","authors":"Michela Ardizzoni","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.2014663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.2014663","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the transmedia work of writer and media maker Antonio Dikele Distefano through an analysis of the politics and aesthetics of Blackness and its (in)visibilities in Italy. Specifically this paper considers how this artist inhabits and disrupts existing narratives of belonging and negotiates the racialized terms of the Italian imaginary.","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"223 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42165314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Homo Oeconomicus and the Limits of Storytelling: Italian Apocalyptic Fiction of the Long Downturn","authors":"Nicholas Albanese","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.1992097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.1992097","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on three contemporary Italian novels that operate within the apocalyptic paradigm and voice a sense of collapsing reality that characterized Italy in the wake of the global financial crisis. Ruggero Cappuccio's Fuoco su Napoli (2010), Gianni Miraglia's Muori Milano muori! (2011), and Francesca Genti's La febbre (2011) represent worlds in which the disruption of daily life exposes the invisible conventions that make it possible. In shaping narratives in which their characters attempt to cope with the fact that their worlds are coming to a definitive end because of their relationship to profit, power, and spectacle, the authors articulate an underlying critique of the present socio-economic system and its ancillary effects. From this perspective, these novels highlight the ways in which the neoliberal economic system of the long downturn undermines the conditions that guarantee the future of social and biophysical life as we know it. I argue that the manipulation enacted by the authors in relation to established genre paradigms invites a rearrangement of values and of human relations with respect to homo oeconomicus, thus envisioning a new ethics as the pulsing core for activating a political shift and bringing about a new future.","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"201 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41767086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"T.S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale e la modernità dantesca","authors":"L. Barile","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.1976973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.1976973","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"240 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47343515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Cittadinanza,” “sudditanza” e “nazionalità” in contesto imperiale: Riflessioni sul caso italiano tra guerra e dopoguerra, 1914–1925","authors":"S. Donati","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.1980996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.1980996","url":null,"abstract":"L’articolo esamina le declinazioni di cittadinanza, sudditanza e nazionalità che presero forma nel contesto dell’espansionismo coloniale italiano durante gli anni della Grande Guerra e del primo periodo postbellico. Viaggiando attraverso il territorio dell’impero formale italiano in Libia e nella concessione dell’impero informale a Tientsin in Cina, il saggio unisce – per la prima volta in un’unica indagine – l’analisi dei tre concetti in oggetto tra metropoli, sponda nordafricana e lembo asiatico dell’oltremare; e fornisce altresì importanti elementi per comprendere il ruolo svolto dalla Grande Guerra nella definizione di quei legami di appartenenza. Situato all’intersezione degli studi sulla Prima guerra mondiale nelle colonie, sulla politica della cittadinanza nel Regno d’Italia, e sulla dimensione transnazionale della storia coloniale, questo saggio offre un innovativo confronto inter-imperiale del caso italiano basandosi sull’interazione di preziosi documenti inediti degli archivi italiani, fonti parlamentari, scritture edite della memorialistica, letteratura italiana coeva, e recenti studi storici in lingua italiana, inglese e francese.","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"155 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45234287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local Recipes in the National Kitchen: The Life and Legacies of Ada Boni’s Il talismano della felicità","authors":"H. Kashdan","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.1989852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.1989852","url":null,"abstract":"Ada Boni’s 1925 Il talismano della felicità has for almost 100 years been the Italian domestic manual par excellence. Whether actively used or simply preserved as a family keepsake, Boni’s cookbook has been a fixture in generations of Italian kitchens. This article argues that Il talismano is a major work of Italian national literature. Boni rejects the model established by Pellegrino Artusi’s La scienza in cucina e l’arte di mangiar bene, offering instead a female-focused domestic manual by a woman and for women. Over its long publication history, Il talismano transforms from an instructional guide for bourgeois housewives into an artifact of Fascist nationalism, and then into a comprehensive compendium of all the foods eaten in Italy. Ongoing revisions and adaptations – including an important 1950 American edition – reflect Il talismano’s desire to provide a model of Italian identity rooted in the hyperlocal variety of Italian culinary traditions and practices.","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"174 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42162998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Piazze to Courts: Actresses’ Role in the Refashioning of Commedia dell’Arte","authors":"Nicla Riverso","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2021.1988212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2021.1988212","url":null,"abstract":"My article provides a better understanding of commedia dell’arte’s transformation from an indecorous form of popular entertainment, performed in public spaces (piazze) and accused of teaching lust and corruption, into a legitimate and respected art form, performed in aristocratic and royal court theatres before refined and educated audiences. I show how relevant performances by such actresses as Barbara Flaminia, Lidia da Bagnacavallo, Isabella Andreini, Vincenza Armani, Vittoria Piissini, Orsola Posmoni, and Virginia Ramponi were in changing the image of the commedia dell’arte. Blending theater and culture, actresses ennobled themselves and their profession and constructed a new model of a talented and educated heroine, while contributing to a new appreciation for commedia dell’arte as a form of literary and artistic performance. In fact, because of their efforts, the commedia dell’arte diverged significantly from the performances of buffoni, mountebanks, acrobats, contortionists, story-tellers, and street singers, and survived defamatory propaganda and opposition from churchmen, finding support in secular patronage and gaining social and cultural dignity.","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"39 1","pages":"136 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48777592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jousting with Verse: The Poetics of Friendship in Duecento Comuni","authors":"E. Coggeshall","doi":"10.1080/01614622.2020.1844497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614622.2020.1844497","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the divisive factionalism that riled Italian comuni in the late Duecento, the language of friendship dominated the vernacular poetry circulating in late medieval urban centers, particularly in tenzoni. In these disputatious exchange poems, vernacular authors frequently referred to one another as “amico,” no matter what relationship they may have had with their interlocutors. The usage of the language of “amicizia” in these exchanges defies conventional praises of friendship, which would conceive of friendship as an unambiguous moral good. Instead, the ambivalent language of friendship in tenzoni reflects both the anxiety of duplicitous speech that plagued urban life and a hope for the salvation of the comune from partisan conflict. These tenzoni collectively propose a model of friendly antagonism, which, in its engagement even across ideological lines, strives to convert dispute from violent partisanship into a competitive joust in the game of honor.","PeriodicalId":41506,"journal":{"name":"Italian Culture","volume":"38 1","pages":"99 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614622.2020.1844497","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49300743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}