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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

Dear Colleagues,



Please consider the following session for the AAIS/CSIS Conference, which
will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on April,
20-22 2017:



*Settant’anni e non sentirli: Ennio Flaiano’s Tempo di uccidere*



*Organizers: *Derek Duncan (University of St. Andrews); Mattia Roveri (New
York University)



Seventy years after its publication, Flaiano’s *Tempo di uccidere* has
become a point of reference for Italian postcolonial studies. Contemporary
writers on Italian colonialism - in literature, history, etc. - are in
explicit or implicit intertextual relationship with Flaiano’s novel.
Furthermore, *Tempo di uccidere* has proven to be a fertile testing ground
for other innovative analyses (e.g. comparative theories, psychoanalytic,
feminist readings etc.). This panel seeks to investigate the ways in which
Flaiano’s novel has exercised its influence on Italian literature and
culture. Have we exhausted our approaches to this versatile novel?


We are interested in a broad range of approaches and interpretations,
including but not limited to the following topics:


   - Literary responses, comments, and intertextual references to *Tempo di
   uccidere* in Italian literature and cinema;
   - Violence and violation in *Tempo di uccidere*;
   - Political satire and irony after *Tempo di uccidere*;
   - *Tempo di uccidere* in the context of Flaiano’s versatile work;
   - Postcolonial theory and *Tempo di uccidere*;
   - *Tempo di uccidere* and the Italian military missions;
   - *Tempo di uccidere*’s impact on the perceptions of Italy’s colonial
   enterprise;
   - Diary form after Flaiano's *Aethiopia* and its relation to *Tempo di
   uccidere*.
   - 1947 – a year of foundational narratives in Italian literature:
   Flaiano’s *Tempo di uccidere*, Primo Levi’s *Se questo è un uomo*, Italo
   Calvino’s *Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno*, Cesare Pavese’s *Il compagno*,
   etc.


Please send proposals including title, abstract (250 words), and short bios
to *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* *by December 9th, 2016*.


Sincerely,

Mattia Roveri, PhD


Visiting Scholar
Italian Department
New York University

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