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Italy and the Mediterranean

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137343468

ISBN: 978-1-349-46570-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 26, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Introduction

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 1 –12

[Abody of relatively calm waters, easy to navigate and bound by the contiguous shores of Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has enabled extensive travels and peaceful interactions but also violent conflicts between people seeking to further trade, establish colonies, and wage wars....
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The Return to the Mediterranean in Contemporary Western Thought

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 13 –42

[Since the 1980s, a vast corpus of artistic expressions and scholarly writings on the Mediterranean has animated Western culture. Filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, and poets express in their works Mediterranean themes and concerns, while scholars from Barcelona to Marseilles, Athens to Messina,...
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Interlude

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 43 –69

[In the introduction and Chapter 1, we outlined how the Mediterranean has been the object of a tradition of discursiveness traceable all the way to antiquity. In the early modern era, Mediterranean discursiveness took a distinct shape with regard to Italy, especially its southern regions. As a...
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Geophilosophies of the Mediterranean

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 71 –94

[An Italian geophilosophical discourse on the Mediterranean emerged powerfully in the mid-1990s. Arising and inscribed within a spatially determined Mediterranean culture, this discourse originates from an idea of space understood in its geographic, material dimension but also as a symbolic...
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Sounds of Southern Shores

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 95 –119

[Proceeding with our examination of the cluster of cultural material that testifies to a revisiting of the many sites and locations of Italy’s Mediterraneanness, in this chapter, we will focus on the realm of popular music, a realm that has shown much ferment and creativity from the 1980s onward,...
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Screening the Souths through Southern Eyes

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 121 –154

[In this chapter, we focus on Italian cinema from the 1980s onward. Although a brief discussion of the cinematic traditions that precede it— notably, neorealism, comedy, and docufiction—is in order, our analysis explores the work of a limited number of directors who vividly express the tension...
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Writing the Mediterraneity of the Italian Souths

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 155 –190

[In the last few decades, a large number of Italian writers are revisiting the sites and locations of Italy’s Mediterranean identity in works that examine the effects of modernization on the South while consciously mobilizing the historical sedimentation of composite and minoritarian cultures of...
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The Mediterranean of Migrant, Postcolonial, and Exile Writers

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 191 –224

[By the mid-1970s, Italy, which like Greece, Portugal, and Spain had been one of Southern Europe’s traditional out-migration countries, became a destination for individuals who crossed the Mediterranean from the Strait of Gibraltar between Morocco and Spain, the Channel of Sicily between Tunisia...
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Postface

Bouchard, Norma; Ferme, Valerio

Pages: 225 –227

[On February 23, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg condemned the Italian government, in Hirsi Jamaa and others v. Italy, to pay 15,000 euros to each of the defendants who brought the case forward. The case, which drew worldwide indignation for the callous ways in which...

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