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With the "Tangentopoli" corruption scandals of the early 1990s,
Italy is purported recently to have experienced a period of
political change comparable to the period immediately following
World War II. This latter being the socio-political environment in
which the concept of "impegno" - political commitment - in
literature became current, this work asks whether an equivalent
moment of constitutional crisis in the 1990s has had a comparable
impact on perceptions of the role of the writer and of literature
in Italian society. This volume traces the development of "impegno"
(political commitment) in post-war Italian prose literature using
the metaphor of fragmentation: the monolithic notion of commitment
to an overarching political agenda has splintered, facilitating a
fragmentary attention to specific issues.Part One examines the
early "impegno" debate through the critical works of Vittorini,
Calvino and Pasolini, tracing it forward into the 1960s and 1970s.
The remaining three parts study in detail the "fragments of
impegno" offered by contemporary authors - Tabucchi, Ramondino, De
Carlo, Tondelli, Ballestra, and African immigrant writers,
including Fazel, Melliti and Methnani. This range of authors and
texts illustrates the ways in which socio-political issues are
explicitly or implicitly addressed, represented, or embedded in
contemporary Italian literature.
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.
This book addresses a rich corpus of contemporary narratives by
authors who have come to Italy as migrants. It traces the
figurative commonalities that emerge across these diverse texts,
which together suggest the shape and substance of what might be
termed 'migrant imaginaries'. Examining five central figures and
concepts - identity, memory, home, place and space, and literature
- across a range of novels and stories by writers of African and
Middle Eastern origin, the study elucidates the affective and
expressive processes that inflect migrant story-telling. Drawing on
the work of cultural theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Michel de
Certeau, as well as on recent work in postcolonial literary
studies, memory studies, human geography and feminist theory, the
book probes the varied works of Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Amara
Lakhous, Mohsen Melliti, Younis Tawfik and many others. Each
chapter posits alternative interpretations of the ways in which the
interior experience of encounters across territories, cultures and
languages is figured in this literature. In doing so, the book
moves towards a wider apprehension of recent Italian migration
narratives as suggestions of what a new notion of contemporary
'Italian' literature might look like, figured at once within and
beyond the boundaries of a national literature, a national language
and a national cultural imaginary.
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Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives
is about identity-individual and national-and belonging. Also, it
is an affirmation of diversity. Its editors have brought together
articles by scholars analyzing the literature of migration and
creative pieces by recognized authors who have lived experience of
migration. English-speaking readers will find their own societies'
struggles with diversity mirrored in Italy's colonial inheritance,
its renewed nationalism, populism, xenophobia, shifting national
identity, and other phenomena which are the contexts for the
writings in this volume. The artists and scholars presented and
discussed in this volume often challenge national discourses and
dehumanizations, issues of race and of gender. But many also seek
to move beyond the negative and critical to claim
belonging-especially national belonging-in the name of difference
as part of human experience. The selections emphasize how
individuals both reflect and enact societal change, and foreground
the inescapable fact that diversity and migration drive and shape
societal identity in our current world.
The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness
significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the
consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards
and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of
writing and performing - the novel, the self-help manual,
theatrical improvisation - develop in response to new practices and
technologies of production and distribution. Key to the emergence
of an inclusive national audience in Italy is, however, the
audience itself. A wide and varied body of consumers of culture,
animated by the notion of an Italian national cultural identity,
create in this period an increasingly complex demand for different
cultural products. This body is energized by the wider access to
education and to the Italian language brought about by educational
reforms, by growing urbanization, by enhanced social mobility, and
by transcultural connections across European borders. This book
investigates this process, analyzing the ways in which authors,
composers, publishers, performers, journalists, and editors engage
with the anxieties and aspirations of their diverse audiences.
Fourteen essays by specialists in the field, exploring individual
contexts and cases, demonstrate how interests related to gender,
social class, cultural background and practices of reading and
spectatorship, exert determining influence upon the production of
culture in this period. They describe how women, men, and children
from across the social and regional strata of the emerging nation
contribute incrementally but actively to the idea and the growing
reality of an Italian national cultural life. They show that from
newspapers to salon performances, from letters to treatises in
social science, from popular novels to literary criticism, from
philosophical discussions to opera theaters, there is evidence in
Italy in this period of unprecedented participation, crossing
academic and popular cultures, in the formation of a national
audience in Italy. This cultural transformation later produces the
mass culture in Italy which underpins the major movements of the
twentieth century and which undergoes new challenges and
reformulations in the Italy we know today.
Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever
shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher
Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and
markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days.
Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the
original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns
offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure,
examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative
political thought.
Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia
through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to
bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly
successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights
the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for
those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of
limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience
of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring
of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students
and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists,
libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the
development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship
with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom
she had an explosive falling out in 1968.
One of the Denver Post's Great Reads of 2009
One of Bloomberg News's Top Nonfiction Books of 2009
"Excellent."
--Time magazine
"A terrific book--a serious consideration of Rand's ideas, and her
role in the conservative movement of the past three quarters of a
century."
--The American Thinker
"A wonderful book: beautifully written, completely balanced,
extensively researched. The match between author and subject is so
perfect that one might believe that the author was chosen by the
gods to write this book. She has sympathy and affection for her
subject but treats her as a human being, with no attempt to cover
up the foibles."
--Mises Economics Blog
Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever
shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher
Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and
markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days.
Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand's private papers and the
original, unedited versions of Rand's journals, Jennifer Burns
offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure,
examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative
political thought.
Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia
through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to
bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly
successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights
the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for
those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of
limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience
of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring
of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students
and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists,
libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the
development of Rand's Objectivist philosophy and her relationship
with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom
she had an explosive falling out in 1968.
One of the Denver Post's Great Reads of 2009
One of Bloomberg News's Top Nonfiction Books of 2009
"Excellent."
--Time magazine
"A terrific book--a serious consideration of Rand's ideas, and her
role in the conservative movement of the past three quarters of a
century."
--The American Thinker
"A wonderful book: beautifully written, completely balanced,
extensively researched. The match between author and subject is so
perfect that one might believe that the author was chosen by the
gods to write this book. She has sympathy and affection for her
subject but treats her as a human being, with no attempt to cover
up the foibles."
--Mises Economics Blog
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