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Buongiorno,ammettete anche l’italiano come lingua di comunicazione per l’articolo?un caro salutoLorenzo Azzaro,PhD student:Department of French and Romance Philology,Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).Docente:Ministero Istruzione Università e Ricerca.Mail:Cell:Móvil:2017-06-13 10:49 GMT+02:00 Enrica Maria Ferrara <[log in to unmask]>:italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies******************************
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to bring to your attention our Call for Contributions to a new edited volume provisionally titled Posthuman Boundaries and Identity in Italian Literature and Film.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sunday, 20 August 2017. Please find below a comprehensive description of the aims and purpose of the volume, and instructions for submission of abstracts.
Best wishes,Enrica & Grace
Call for Contributions to Edited Volume
Posthuman Boundaries and Identity in Italian Literature and Film
Volume to be edited by
Enrica Maria Ferrara (Trinity College Dublin)
Grace Russo Bullaro (City University of New York-Lehman College)
Recent literature has highlighted how the de-centralization of the human has led to a re-configuration and re-negotiation of subject identities with the purpose of finding new ways of “becoming” individual. The new subjects emerging from this process, that has the loss of anthropocentrism at its core, strive to re-negotiate their identity vis-á-vis the non-human world of animals, inanimate entities and technological artefacts. The essays collected in the volume provisionally titled Posthuman Boundaries and Identity in Italian Literature and Film
aim to capture the various posthuman shapes and formats that human identity takes in contemporary Italian narrative and film. In particular, we are interested in research papers dealing with posthuman texts viewed as an expression of intellectual identity and ideological commitment. Even if our main focus is on the Italian context, in the true spirit of posthumanism with its de-centralizing and centripetal force superseding national, social, ethnic, gender, species and technological boundaries, this volume will also include a number of essays dealing with aspects of Italian literature and film analyzed through the lens of comparative literature and film.
The wide questions which the editors of this volume seek to address are the following:
How is human identity represented in a posthuman world where all matter has agency and knowledge is “performed” by all animate and inanimate beings rather than controlled by the human subject? How are writers, intellectuals and artists responding (or have responded) to this challenge? Are they imagining new ‘posthuman’ ways of being a human and an intellectual?
Three large sub-sections have been provisionally defined.
Writing Identities in the Posthuman Era: this section aims to explore the reflective process anticipating and underlying the transformation of consciousness in the posthuman era. Contributions included in this section not only will elaborate on this process from a historical angle (through analysis of Pirandello’s work, for instance) but will also propose case studies taken from 20th and 21st century literature and film in which authors aim to bridge the gap between the human and the posthuman subject by consciously writing the process of “becoming” posthuman.
Technology and Identity: this section considers the enormous impact that techno-science and technological innovations have had on the construction of subject identities in the posthuman era. Contributions included in this section will explore the work of Italian authors who have explicitly dwelled upon the interaction between machines, digital and technical devices (such as computers, mobile phones, smartphones, videogames, etc.) and the human. Topical questions that this section will address concern the transition from singular to relational identity of the new posthuman subject shaped by social media and digital devices. Has the new web-enabled, constantly connected individual of the posthuman era abdicated his/her own agency in favour of a collective agency determined via the interaction of many interconnected consciousnesses? Also, what type of knowledge is produced through enmeshment with technological artefacts? Is it still legitimate to consider the human as the main producer of knowledge or do we have to embrace the hypothesis put forward by the supporters of New Materialism based on which all knowledge is produced through intra-action of all living matter?
Boundaries of the Human this section includes texts exploring the re-definition of boundaries between the human subject and the other beings or entities that have agency in the posthuman era: animals, inanimate entities and technological artefacts. Questions addressed in this section will concern the ability of the human to adjust to his/her shifting position vis-á-vis all remaining matter. Ethical questions will also be addressed in this section as the matter of “impegno” and ideological commitment will come into focus, given the absence of clear territorial confines within which all agencies are seen to operate.
Please send your 500 word abstract and a comprehensive provisional bibliography together with a 50 word bio to Enrica Maria Ferrara (Trinity College Dublin) at [log in to unmask] and Grace Russo Bullaro (CUNY, Lehman College) at [log in to unmask]. All
submitted documents should be in English and should be received no later than 20 August 2017.
We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts!
Thank you.
Enrica & Grace
Dr. Enrica Maria Ferrara
Adj. Asst. Professor
Department of Italian
Trinity College Dublin
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