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March 10, 2005
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1. You will find below the most recent list of books received.
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been postponed until 2007.
9. For 2006 Norma Bouchard will guest-edit a volume titled: Negotiating
Regional, National, and Global Identities. Its description will soon be
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BOOKS RECEIVED
March 10, 2005
L'anello che non tiene. Journal of Modern Italian Literature 13-14.1-2
(Spring-Fall 2001-2002).
Bellosi, Raffaello, and Manuela Ricci, eds. Lei capisce il dialetto?
Raffaello Baldini fra poesia e teatro. Ravenna: Longo, 2003. Pp. 287.
Bertellini, Giorgio, ed. The Cinema of Italy. Preface Gian Piero
Brunetta. London: Wallflower Press, 2004. Pp. 271.
Bigolina, Giulia. Urania. A Romance. Ed. and trans. Valeria Finucci.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005. Pp. 192.
Brocchi, Giambattista. Viaggio nel Lazio, la Tuscia e l'Agro Pontino.
Ed. Cinzia Capitoni. Viterbo: Edizioni Sette Città, 2004. Pp. 147.
Buonarroti, Michelangelo, il Giovane. La fiera. 2a redazione. Ed.
Olimpia Pelosi. Napoli: Liguori ed., 2003. Pp. 488.
Campiglia, Maddalena. Flori, A Pastoral Drama. Bilingual edition. Ed.
Virginia Cox and Lisa Sampson. Trans. Virginia Cox. Chicago: U of
Chicago P, 2004. Pp. 347.
Carrera, Alessandro. Lo spazio materno dell'ispirazione: Agostino,
Blanchot, Celan, Zanzotto. Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 2004. Pp. 255.
Carrera, Alessandro, and Alessandro Vettori, eds. Binding the Lands.
Present Day Poets, Present Day Poetry. Proceedings of the Third Annual
Symposium of IPSA (Italian Poetry Society of America). New York,
November 11-13, 1999. New Jersey Institute of Italian and Italian
American Heritage Studies. Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 2004. Pp. 417.
Carroli, Bernardino. Il giovane ben creato. Ed. Elide Casali. Ravenna:
Longo, 2004. Pp. 274.
Caskey, Jill. Art and Patronage in the Medieval Mediterranean. Merchant
Culture in the Region of Amalfi. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. 327.
Cherchi, Paolo. Ministorie di microgeneri. Ed. Chiara Fabbian,
Alessandro Rebonato, and Emanuela Zanotti Carney. Ravenna: Longo, 2003.
Pp. 162.
Farabbi, Anna Maria. Adlujè. Rovigo: Il Ponte del sale, 2003. Pp. 107.
Favaro, Francesca. Le rose colte in Elicona. Studi sul classicismo di
Vincenzo Monti. Ravenna: Longo, 2004. Pp.
Ferraris, Denis, and Marina Marietti, eds. Modèles médiévaux dans la
littérature contemporaine. Spec. ed. of Arzanà: Cahiers de littérature
médiévale italienne 10 (2004): 1-312. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle,
2004.
Guasco, Annibal. Discourse to Lady Lavinia his Daughter. Ed., transl.
and introd. Peggy Osborn. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Pp. 145.
Guzzetta, Giorgio. Nation and Narration. British Modernism in Italy in
the First Half of the 20th Century. Ravenna: Longo, 2004. Pp. 226.
Italo Calvino: les mots, les idées et les rêves. Ed. Denis Ferraris and
Mario Fusco. Chroniques italiennes 75/76 (1-2005).
Jansen, Steen, and Paola Polito. Tema e metafora in testi poetici di
Leopardi, Montale e Magrelli. Firenze: Olschki, 2004. Pp. 156.
Jovine, Francesco. Scritti critici. Ed. Patrizia Guida. Lecce:
Milella, 2004. Pp. 883.
LaFemina, Gerry. The Parakeets of Brooklyn. Poems by Gerry LaFemina. / I
parrocchetti di Brooklyn. Poesie. Trans. Elisa Biagini. Boca Raton:
Bordighera, 2005. Pp. 119.
Lucy, Niall. A Derrida Dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Pp. 183.
Macciò, Francesco. Sotto notti altissime di stelle. Preface Luigi
Surdich. La Spezia: Agorà edizioni, 2003. Pp. 78.
Mesirca, Margherita. Le mille e una storie impossibili. Indagine intorno
ai racconti lunghi di Ennio Flaiano. Ravenna: Longo, 2003. Pp. 277.
Montano, Rocco. Arte, realtà e storia. L'estetica del Croce e il mondo
dell'arte. Venezia: Marsilio, 2003. Pp. 154.
Morosini, Roberta. "Per difetto rintegrare". Una lettura del Filocolo
di Giovanni Boccaccio. Ravenna: Longo, 2004. Pp. 220.
Padovani, Cinzia. A Fatal Attraction. Public Television and Politics in
Italy. Lanham (MD): Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. Pp. 298.
Parisi, Luciano. Manzoni e Bossuet. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'orso,
2003. Pp. 153.
Passannanti, Erminia. Il corpo e il potere. Salò o le 120 giornate di
Sodoma di Pier Paolo Pasolini. Leicester (UK): Troubador Publishing Co.,
2004. Pp. 82.
Passannanti, Erminia. Poem of the Roses. Linguistic Expression in the
Poetry of Franco Fortini. Leicester, (UK): Troubador Publishing Co.,
2004. Pp. 84.
Pellini, Pierluigi. In una casa di vetro. Generi e temi del naturalismo
europeo. Grassina (Firenze): Le Monnier Università, 2004. Pp. 264.
Piemontese, Angelo Michele. La letteratura italiana in Persia. Atti
della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei Anno 400 (2003). Classe di scienze
morali, storiche e filologiche. Memorie Serie 9, vol. 17, fasc. 1. Roma,
2003. Pp. 249.
Ragusa, Olga. Andrea Ragusa. Editore-libraio italiano a New York dal
1931 al 1974. Intro. Paolo Bagnoli. Firenze: Edizioni Polistampa, 2004.
Pp. 142.
Reich, Jacqueline, and Piero Garofalo, eds. Re-Viewing Fascism. Italian
Cinema, 1922-1943. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002. Pp. 368.
Residori, Matteo. L'idea del poema. Studio sulla Gerusalemme
conquistata di Torquato Tasso. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 2004. Pp.
471.
Riva, Massimo, ed. Italian Tales. An Anthology of Contemporary Italian
Fiction. New Haven: Yale UP, 2004. Pp. 260.
Rosselli, Amelia. War Variations. Trans. Lucia Re and Paul Vangelisti.
Copenhagen: Green Integer, 2005. Pp. 382.
Rowland, Ingrid D. The Scarith of Scornello. A Tale of Renaissance
Forgery. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004. Pp. 230.
Sanguineti White, Laura, Andrea Baldi, and Kristin Phillips, ed. Essays
in Honor of Marga Cottino-Jones. Firenze: Cadmo, 2003. Pp. 226.
Scott, John A. Understanding Dante. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2004.
Pp. 466.
Smarr, Janet Levarie. Joining the Conversation. Dialogues by
Renaissance Women. Ann Arbor : U pf Michigan P, 2005. Pp. 312.
Sohm, Philip. Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy. Cambridge
: Cambridge UP, 2001. Pp. 315.
Somigli, Luca, and Mario Moroni, eds. Italian Modernism. Italian Culture
Between Decadentism and Avant-Garde. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004. Pp.
459.
Stauder, Thomas. Gespräche mit Umberto Eco. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2004.
Pp. 163.
Tusiani, Bea. Con amore. A Daughter-In-Law's Story of Growing Up
Italian-American in Bushwick. Boca Raton: Bordighera, 2004. Pp. 220.
Zangrilli, Franco, ed. La Ciociaria tra scrittori e cineasti. Archivio
7. Pesaro: Metauro, 2004. Pp. 580.
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Annali d'Italianistica 24 (2006)
Negotiating Regional, National, and Global Identities
Guest Editor
Norma Bouchard
In recent years, a number of critical theories ? from psychoanalysis and
feminism to Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, rhizomatics, gender
and post-colonial studies, etc. ? have converged in questioning the
traditional and orthodox view of identity as a fully centered and
autonomous source of meaning and agency. While many important
differences exist in the theories mentioned above, such as the complex
issue of human agency, they nevertheless point towards an understanding
of identity as a relational process, whereby the subject is made within
the world, not born already formed. Yet, it is perhaps the relatively
recent theory and practice of Cultural Studies that has placed the issue
of identity at the core of its inquiry, conceptualizing it as a
continuous set of ever-evolving subject-positions negotiated and
produced within the wider contexts and sites of acculturation that are
available to us at any given stage of our history.
The dramatic economic, social, and political transformations that have
characterized the Italian peninsula from the second half of the 20th
century onwards, make it a privileged site for a cultural inquiry
focused on processes of identity-formation. From the years of the
postwar reconstruction to the contemporary period, Italy has evolved
from a mostly rural to an industrial and a post-industrial society. With
the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, phenomena of urbanization,
rural exodus, and mass consumption have modified the collective models
of integration upon which traditional Italian society rested. Since
1968 further transformations have occurred. Not only have the protests
of workers, students, youths, women, and gays additionally undermined
older forms of integration, but Italy's joining the ranks of
post-industrial economies has led to a sharp increase in particularistic
and secularized forms of identity-formations. Recent political
developments have continued this trend. In the last two decades the
integrative authority of traditional parties has lost legitimacy and the
practices of political corruption, patronage, and opportunism of
"Tangentopoli" disclosed by the investigation of "Mani pulite" has led
to the demise of the so-called First Republic in 1992 and the subsequent
rise of regionalist groups, such as the Northern Leagues (i.e., Liga
Veneta, Lega Lombarda, etc.).The electoral success of the latter, which
have gone as far as calling for the creation of an independent state, or
"Padania," reveal the emergence of new political and sub-cultural
identities, while clearly testifying to a further weakening of the
already highly problematic concept of a unified national body wished for
by Risorgimento and pursued by governments from the Liberal State to
Fascism and beyond. To the complexity of this panorama, one must also
add Italy's present movement towards European economic and institutional
integration and the effects of globalization Coupled with an
unprecedented wave of immigrants from Eastern Europe, North Africa,
Western India, South America and China, Italian society and culture may
be reshaped by European integration and globalization in the direction
of a paradoxical mix of identities ranging from sub- and supra-national
to diasporic and hybrid forms.
In light of the important structural changes that are reconfiguring
Italian society, volume 24 of Annali d'Italianistica 2006 intends to
build upon the work of Cultural Studies to explore the dynamic
negotiations and formalizations of local, national, and supranational
identities in relation to the many locations and sites of cultural
production: high and low print culture, media and visual culture,
patterns of consumption of the everyday life, ritualized forms of
behavior and lifestyles, sites of memory and forgetting, and so on.
Theoretically grounded essays that explore the competing, conflicting
claims of supranational communities and organization (i.e., the EU, the
Global Marketplace, the Internet) in relation to territorial
macro-regions (i.e., the Mediterranean geo-cultural context) and ethno-
(i.e., hybrid and diasporic identities) or pseudo-ethno regional forms
of sub-national belonging (i.e., the phenomenon of the Northern Leagues,
the pre-modern appeals to ethnic and territorial belonging) are
welcome, as also are contributions that address the enabling
possibilities of these integrative models in the political, ethical, and
affective mobilization of individuals.
Essays, not to exceed 25 double-spaced pages and written in Italian or
English, should conform to the style-sheet criteria set forth by Annali
d'Italianistica for "Notes" and "Works Cited."
Deadline for submission is January 30, 2006.
Publication expected by 2006.
All contributions will be refereed.
Prospective contributors should address all inquiries to:
Norma Bouchard
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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Bibliography:
A General Bibliography is too extensive to include here, but the
following titles can provide a good starting point.
Cultural Studies:
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. London: Verso and New Left
Books, 1983.
Barker, Chris. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage,
2003.
Bhabha, Homi K., ed. Nation and Narration. London and New York:
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Bhabba, Homi K., The Location of Culture, London and New York:
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Edgar, Andrew, and Peter Sedgwick. Key Concepts in Cultural Theory.
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and New York, Routledge, 1999.
Featherstone, Mike, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson, eds. Global
Modernities.
London: Sage, 1995.
Giddens, Anthony. Modernity and Self-Identity. Cambridge: Polity P,
1991.
Gray, Ann and Jim McGuigan eds. Studying Culture. London: Edward Arnold,
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Grossberg, Lawrence, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler eds. Cultural
Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 1992.
Hall, Stuart, and Paul Du Gay eds. Questions of Cultural Identity.
London: Sage, 1996.
Hall, Stuart, ed. Representations. London: Sage, 1997.
Hall, Stuart, David Held, and Tony McGrew, eds. Modernity and Its
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Lash, Scott and Jonathan Friedman, Modernity and Identity. London:
Blackwell, 1992.
Mansfield, Nick. Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to
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Morley, David, and D.K. Chen, ed. Stuart Hall. London: Routledge, 1996.
Morley, David, and Kevin Robins eds. Spaces of Identity: Global Media,
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O'Sullivan, Tim, John Hartley, Danny Saunders, et alt. Key Concepts in
Communication and Cultural Studies . London: Routledge, 1994.
Preston, Per W. Political/Cultural Identity, London; Sage 1997.
Rutherford Jonathan, ed.: Identity, Community, Culture, Difference.
London: Lawrence and Wishardt, 1990.
Storey, John. Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture.
Theories and Methods. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.
Storey, John, ed. What is Cultural Studies? London: Routledge, 1997.
Italy:
Agnew, John A. Place and Politics in Modern Italy Chicago. U of Chicago
P, 2002.
Allen, Beverly, and Mary Russo. Identity and Global Culture.
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.
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Bedani, Gino and Bruce Haddock, ed. The Politics of Italian National
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2000.
Burns, Jennifer, and Loredana Polezzi eds. Migrazioni e identità nel
Novecento, Cosmo Iannone, 2003
Cento Bull, Anna. Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy.
Berghahn Books, 2000.
Cerroni, Umberto. L'identità civile degli Italiani. Lecce: Piero
Manni, 1996.
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Forgacs, David, and Robert Lumley eds. Italian Cultural Studies. Oxford:
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Gasparini, Alberto. Gli Italiani ci sono, a quando l'Italia? Milano:
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Ginsborg, Paul. Italy and Its Discontents. Family, Civil Society,
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Gold, Thomas. The Lega Nord and Contemporary Politics in Italy. New
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Lawton, Ben, and Graziella Parati, eds. Italian Cultural Studies. Boca
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Lepre, Aurelio. Italia addio? Unità e disunità dal 1860 a oggi. Milano:
Mondadori, 1994.
Levy, Carl, ed. Italian Regionalism: History, Identity and Politics.
Oxford: Berg, 1996.
Martinelli, Alberto, Antonio Chiesi and Sonia Stefanizzi. Recent Social
Trends in Italy1960-1995. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP,
1999.
Patrick McCarthy, ed. Italy since 1945. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
Romano, Ruggiero. Finis Italiae. Vanni Schweiller, 1994.
Rusconi, Gian Enrico. Se cessiamo di essere una nazione. Bologna: Il
Mulino, 1993.
Schmidtke, Oliver. Politics of Identity. Pro Universitate Verlag.
Auflage,1996.
Schneider, Jane, ed. Southern Question: Orientalism in One Country.
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Tamburri, Julian Anthony, Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, Graziella Parati,
and Ben Lawton, eds. Italian Cultural Studies 2001. Boca Raton (FL):
Bordighera P, 2004.
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