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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies News from Annali d'italianistica (www.ibiblio.org/annali) May10, 2005 Dear Colleagues: 1. You will find below the most recent list of books received. Interested scholars may contact the Editor at: [log in to unmask] 2. Scholars who have never reviewed for AdI, or are new in the profession, are encouraged to introduce themselves briefly when they request books to review. 3. Information on the journal's editorial norms can be found on the journal's website. 4. The journal's website contain also the following information, which is available to everybody: Table of Contents of AdI 2004: Francis Petrarch and the European Lyric Tradition; the full text of Italian Bookshelf, with ca. 140 pages of book reviews. Also available on the website are the Tables of Contents of all volumes and the full text of all book reviews appeared in AdI since 1998. 5. Colleagues who have accepted to review books should submit their reviews before the next deadline, June 30, 2005. 6. The topic of AdI 2005 is "Literature and Science." A description of the topic is available on the journal's website. 7. The topic of AdI 2006, "Literature, Religion, and the Sacred," has been postponed until 2007. 8. For 2006 Norma Bouchard will guest-edit a volume titled: Negotiating Regional, National, and Global Identities. Its description will soon be posted on the website and is pasted below the list of books received. 9. Here follows the list of books received. Colleagues who wish to review a book should contact the editor at: [log in to unmask] 8. In all your correspondence with the Editor, please provide your e-mail address, complete name, and complete address for regular correspondence. If you receive no answer within two weeks, please contact the Editor again.. BOOKS RECEIVED May 10, 2005 Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, et al. The Contest for Knowledge. Ed. and trans. Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005. Pp. 181. Bailey, Gauvin Alexander, et al., eds. Hope and Healing. Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague 1500-1800. Chicago: Worcester Art Museum and U of Chicago P, 2005. Pp. 264. Benson, Pamela Joseph, and Victoria Kirkham, eds. Strong Voices, Weak History. Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005. Pp. 380. Brocchi, Giambattista. Viaggio nel Lazio, la Tuscia e l'Agro Pontino. Ed. Cinzia Capitoni. Viterbo: Edizioni Sette Città, 2004. Pp. 147. Bouchard, Norma, ed. Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture. Revisiting the Nineteenth-Century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema. Cranbury, NJ: Associated Univsesity Presses, 2005. Pp. 288. 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. Cipolla, Gaetano. Siciliana: Studies on the Sicilian Ethos. Mineola (NY): Legas, 2005. Pp. 250. Di Gesù, Matteo. Palinsesti del moderno. Canoni, generi, forme nella postmodernità letteraria. Milano: Francoangeli, 2005. Pp. 127. 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. Fiorilla, Maurizio. Marginalia figurati nei codici di Petrarca. Firenze: Olschki, 2005. Pp. 96. Fontes Baratto, Anna, ed. De qui, de quoi se moque-t-on? Rire et dérision à la Renaissance. Cahiers de la Renaissance italienne 5. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004. Pp. 196. Gallucci, Margaret A., and Paolo L. Rossi, eds. Benvenuto Cellini Sculptor, Goldsmith, Writer. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. 240. Gilson, Simon. Dante and Renaissance Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Pp. 324. 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. Italville : New Italian Writing [An anthology]. Ed. Lorenzo Pavolini. Toronto : Exile Editions, 2005. Pp. 291. Jovine, Francesco. Scritti critici. Ed. Patrizia Guida. Lecce: Milella, 2004. Pp. 883. Lorch, Jennifer. Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author. Cambridge: Cambrdige UP, 2005. Pp. 257. Lucy, Niall. A Derrida Dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. 183. Lukaszewicz, Justyna, and Davide Artico, eds. Il viaggio come realtà e come metafora. Lask (Poland): Leksem, 2004. Pp. 431. Marchesi, Simone. Stratigrafie decameroniane. Firenze: Olschki, 2004. Pp. 152. Morosini, Roberta. "Per difetto rintegrare". Una lettura del Filocolo di Giovanni Boccaccio. Ravenna: Longo, 2004. Pp. 220. Parisi, Luciano. Manzoni e Bossuet. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'orso, 2003. Pp. 153. Petacco, Arrigo. A Tragedy Revealed. The Story of Italians from Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1943-1956. Trans. Konrad Eisenblicher. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005. Pp. 155. Pilz, Kerstin. Mapping Complexity: Literature and Science in the Works of Italo Calvino. Leicester, UK: Troubador, 2005. Pp. 209. 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. 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. Russo Bullaro, Grace. Beyond Life is Beautiful. Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni. Leicester, UK: Troubador, 2005. Pp. 324. Saiber, Arielle. Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 183. Sanguineti White, Laura, Andrea Baldi, and Kristin Phillips, ed. Essays in Honor of Marga Cottino-Jones. Firenze: Cadmo, 2003. Pp. 226. Scarparo, Susanna. Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction. Leicester, UK: Troubador, 2005. Pp. 189. Scarparo, Susanna, and Rita Wilson, eds. Across Genres, Generations and Borders. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2004. Pp. 228. Scott, John A. Understanding Dante. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2004. Pp. 466. Sohm, Philip. Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy. Cambridge : Cambridge UP, 2001. Pp. 315. Spunta, Marina. Voicing the World. Writing Orality in Contemporary Italian Fiction. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. 360. * 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 [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask] 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: Routledge, 1990. Bhabba, Homi K., The Location of Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Edgar, Andrew, and Peter Sedgwick. Key Concepts in Cultural Theory. London 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, 1992. 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 Futures. Cambridge: Polity, 1992 (see especially the essay by Hall: "The Question of Cultural Identity"). Lash, Scott and Jonathan Friedman, Modernity and Identity. London: Blackwell, 1992. Mansfield, Nick. Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway. New York: NYU P, 2000. Morley, David, and D.K. Chen, ed. Stuart Hall. London: Routledge, 1996. Morley, David, and Kevin Robins eds. Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. London: Routledge, 1995. 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. Baranski, Zygmunt, and Rebecca West, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. Bechelloni, Giovanni, ed. Il mutamento culturale in Italia. Napoli: Liguori, 1989. Bedani, Gino and Bruce Haddock, ed. The Politics of Italian National Identity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Cardiff: U of Wales P, 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. Clark, Martin. Modern Italy 1871-1995. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Forgacs, David, and Robert Lumley eds. Italian Cultural Studies. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. Galli della Loggia, Ernesto. L'identità italiana. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1998. Gasparini, Alberto. Gli Italiani ci sono, a quando l'Italia? Milano: Franco Angeli, 2000. Ginsborg, Paul. Italy and Its Discontents. Family, Civil Society, State: 1980-2001. New YorK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Gold, Thomas. The Lega Nord and Contemporary Politics in Italy. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. Lawton, Ben, and Graziella Parati, eds. Italian Cultural Studies. Boca Raton (FL) Bordighera P, 2001. 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. Oxford: Berg, 1998. Tamburri, Julian Anthony, Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, Graziella Parati, and Ben Lawton, eds. Italian Cultural Studies 2001. 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