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Derek Duncan's timely study is the first book in English to examine
constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature. In
admirably clear and elegant prose, Duncan analyzes texts ranging
from the 1890s through the 1990s. He brings canonical authors like
D'Annunzio and Pasolini together with under-appreciated writers
like Comisso, and also looks at less conventionally literary
genres. Duncan takes on the thorny theoretical issues surrounding
questions of gay identity and also provides a sound historical
context for his discussion of how Italian narrative sheds light on
Italian homosexuality and on the broader issues attending
contemporary sexuality, including complicating factors such as
race. While the early texts considered were produced at a
historical moment when 'homosexuality' as a culturally meaningful
entity had yet to crystallize, recent autobiographies show the
authors reflecting explicitly on questions of gay identity and what
it means to be a homosexual male in present-day Italy. In charting
the emergence of the homosexual in twentieth-century Italy,
however, Duncan's focus is less on questions of identity than on
the meaning attributed to sex between men in the broader cultural
context. His book is a significant contribution to Italian literary
criticism and to gender, gay, and cultural studies.
Derek Duncan's timely study is the first book in English to examine
constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature. In
admirably clear and elegant prose, Duncan analyzes texts ranging
from the 1890s through the 1990s. He brings canonical authors like
D'Annunzio and Pasolini together with under-appreciated writers
like Comisso, and also looks at less conventionally literary
genres. Duncan takes on the thorny theoretical issues surrounding
questions of gay identity and also provides a sound historical
context for his discussion of how Italian narrative sheds light on
Italian homosexuality and on the broader issues attending
contemporary sexuality, including complicating factors such as
race. While the early texts considered were produced at a
historical moment when 'homosexuality' as a culturally meaningful
entity had yet to crystallize, recent autobiographies show the
authors reflecting explicitly on questions of gay identity and what
it means to be a homosexual male in present-day Italy. In charting
the emergence of the homosexual in twentieth-century Italy,
however, Duncan's focus is less on questions of identity than on
the meaning attributed to sex between men in the broader cultural
context. His book is a significant contribution to Italian literary
criticism and to gender, gay, and cultural studies.
The 1930s were one of the most important decades in defining the
history of the twentieth century. It saw the rise of right-wing
nationalism, the challenge to established democracies and the full
force of imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an
important contribution to our understanding of the ideological and
cultural forces which were active in defining notions of national
identity in the 1930s. By examining the work of writers and
journalists from a range of European countries who used the medium
of travel writing to articulate perceptions of their own and other
cultures, the book gives a comprehensive account of the complex
intellectual climate of the 1930s.
These timely reconsiderations of European Travel writing from the
1930s reassert the oppositional primacy of subjective translations
and disavow hermetic notions that travel should or even can be
divorced from socio-political or cultural contexts. * Journeys
Cultural Encounters offers a rich, varied and yet impressively
coherent collection of essays on the meanings and practices of
travel writing in 1930s Europe. Carefully building on theoretical
interest in travel writing of recent years, the essays follow
written journeys to Graham Greene's Liberia and Lorca's Cuba, to
Fascist Italy's Greece and France's Indochina, and many more.
Throughout, texts and authors are shown to be alive with hybrid
constructions of self and of ideological, national and colonial
identity. What is more, the book provides compelling reasons for
seeing 1930s travel writing as being of particular fascination,
lying on a cusp between the Depression, totalitarianism,
colonialism and modernism, and the seeds of mass tourism,
post-colonialism and globalization.* Re-reading German literature
since 1945, Robert Gordon, Cambridge University The 1930s were one
of the most important decades in defining the history of the
twentieth century. It saw the rise of right-wing nationalism, the
challenge to established democracies and the full force of
imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an important
contribution to our understanding of the ideological and cultural
forces which were active in defining notions of national identity
in the 1930s. By examining the work of writers and journalists from
a range of European countries who used the medium of travel writing
to articulate perceptions of their own and other cultures, the book
gives a comprehensive account of the complex intellectual climate
of the 1930s. Charles Burdett is lecturer in Italian at the
University of Bristol and co-editor of European Memories of the
Second World War (1999). He is currently working on representations
of Africa in fascist Italy. Derek Duncan is lecturer in Italian at
the University of Bristol. He has published extensively on
twentieth century Italian literature with particular reference to
questions of gender and sexuality.
An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the
Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. In a
world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual,
and by the pressures of globalization, it has become difficult to
study culture as primarily a national phenomenon. A Handbook offers
students across Modern Languages an introduction to the kind of
methodological questions they need to look at culture
transnationally. Each of the short essays takes a key concept in
cultural study and suggests how it might be used to explore and
illuminate some aspect of identity, mobility, translation, and
cultural exchange across borders. The authors range over different
language areas and their wide chronological reach provides broad
coverage, as well as a flexible and practical methodology for
studying cultures in a transnational framework. The essays show
that an inclusive, transnational vision and practice of Modern
Languages is central to understanding human interaction in an
inclusive, globalized society. A Handbook stands as an effective
and necessary theoretical and thematically diverse glossary and
companion to the 'national' volumes in the series.
Scholars of Italian colonialism have been reluctant to acknowledge
the influence that local populations and their culture had on
Italians and on the ways in which they settled and administered the
territories they occupied. This tendency has reinforced the notion
that the European domination of Africa was total both culturally
and politically. Yet there is evidence to suggest that in every
sphere of colonial life, the relationship between colonizers and
colonized was more dynamic and complex than has been assumed. The
essays in this interdisciplinary volume address the gap in Italian
colonial/post-colonial studies by examining how different notions
of 'hybridity' help illuminate the specific nature and
circumstances of the Italian colonial and postcolonial condition.
Some of the contributors see hybridity as a positive challenge to
fixed categorizations. Others contend that its hasty deployment
promotes a lack of attention to local difference. Foregrounding
specific instances of cultural practice across a range of media
from literature to oral testimony and the internet, this volume
represents a new stage in the study of Italy's colonial past and
its postcolonial afterlife.
Until relatively recently, the Italian colonial experience was
largely regarded as an incidental aspect of Italy's past. Studies
of liberal Italy and even fascism underplayed both the significance
of the state's colonial ambition and its broader cultural impact.
In the post-war era, even less consideration has been given to how
this colonial legacy still affects Italy and the countries it
occupied and colonized. This book arises out of a major two-day
international conference held at the Italian Cultural Institute in
London in December 2001. The essays investigate the ways in which
the Italian colonial experience continues to be relevant even after
the end of empire. They explore the ways in which the memories of
Italy's colonial past have been crafted to accommodate the needs of
the present and the extent to which forgetting colonialism became
an integral part of Italian culture and national identity. These
issues have come into sharper relief of late as labour migration to
Italy has led to new social and cultural encounters within Italy.
The essays additionally investigate the colonial legacy from the
perspective of Italy's former colonies, highlighting the enduring
social, cultural and political ramifications of the colonial
relationship. This interdisciplinary collection contains
contributions from international experts in the fields of history,
cultural studies (literature and film), politics and sociology.
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