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  • - Femininity under Fire in Italy
    af Allison Scardino Belzer
    552,95 - 879,95 kr.

    Drawing on both wartime discourse about women and the voices of individual women living at the Italian Front, Allison Belzer analyzes how women participated in the Great War and how it affected them. Because of the Great War, many women seized the opportunity to participate in a society that continued to recognize them as guardians of the nation.

  • - Interpretation, Reception, and Intellectual Heritage
     
    838,95 kr.

    Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences contemporary research. This volume provides a re-examination of his historiographical production and an analysis of his influence in the context of Italian history.

  • af Maristella Cantini
    692,95 - 1.195,95 kr.

    Featuring essays by top scholars and interviews with acclaimed directors, this book examines Italian women's authorship in film and their visions of reality. The contributors use feminist film criticism in the analysis of their works and give direct voices to the artists who are constantly excluded by the conventional Italian film criticism.

  • - Boundaries and Identity
     
    1.175,95 kr.

    As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals,inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and anew epistemological and ethical approach to reality is needed.

  • - Mona Lisa Covergirl
    af Emma Barron
    996,95 kr.

    When Mona Lisa smiled enigmatically from the cover of the Italian magazine Epoca in 1957, she gazed out at more than three million readers.

  • - Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film
    af Graziella Parati
    786,95 - 1.402,95 kr.

    It argues that the narrative authored by migrants, refugees, second generation women, and one "native Italian" perform a reparative reading of Italian spaces in order to engender reparative narratives. Migrants writers seem to employ both positive and negative affects in defining the past, present, and future of the spaces they inhabit.

  • - Stranger than Fact
    af David Ward
    1.068,95 - 1.074,95 kr.

    This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors.

  • - The Fadda Affair
    af T. Simpson
    692,95 - 725,95 kr.

    An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself.

  • - Reconfiguring the Margins
     
    1.738,95 kr.

    This book is the first dedicated volume of academic analysis on the monumental work of Elena Ferrante, Italy's most well-known contemporary writer.

  • - Essays on a Prejudice
     
    604,95 kr.

    There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry.

  • - Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini's Italy
     
    557,95 kr.

    This work seeks to take a fresh look at the contentious question of the longevity and popularity of Mussolini's regime in Italy. In particular, it draws upon new research to challenge what has been the most influential paradigm over the last couple of decades, namely, the interpretation of Italian fascism as a consensual dictatorship.

  • - Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film
     
    796,95 kr.

    This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world.

  • - Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era
    af Valerio Ferme & Norma Bouchard
    796,95 - 1.195,95 kr.

    The Mediterranean has always loomed large in the history and culture of Italy, and since the 1980s this relationship has been represented in ever more varied forms as both national and regional identities have evolved within a globalized context.

  • af Ruth Glynn
    733,95 - 1.195,95 kr.

    Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma.

  • - Challenging National Homogeneity
    af Cristina Lombardi-Diop
    1.265,95 - 1.359,95 kr.

    This volume constitutes a multidisciplinary intervention into the emerging field of postcolonial studies in Italy, bringing together cultural and social history, critical and political theory, literary and cinematic analyses, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, anthropological fieldwork, and race, gender, diaspora, and urban studies.

  • - The Painter as Writer
    af G. Lerner
    879,95 kr.

    Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics explores the relation of word and image in Carlo Levi's literary works. Lerner investigates the ways in which the dialogue between verbal and iconic systems of representations becomes an instrument of literary and political subversion, and contributes to the definition of Levi's humanistic cultural program.

  • - Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini's Italy
     
    879,95 kr.

    This work seeks to take a fresh look at the contentious question of the longevity and popularity of Mussolini's regime in Italy. In particular, it draws upon new research to challenge what has been the most influential paradigm over the last couple of decades, namely, the interpretation of Italian fascism as a consensual dictatorship.

  • - San Francisco's Italian Americans
    af Sebastian Fichera
    557,95 - 879,95 kr.

    This book details the Italian immigrant experience in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Mayoralty of George Moscone - which is to say the entire life cycle of the Italian community - and defines the concept of community in a way never seen before.

  • - Before and after Auschwitz
     
    879,95 kr.

    This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and revealing byways (Levi and Calvino, or Levi and theater, for example).

  • - Essays on a Prejudice
     
    989,95 kr.

    There has been an odd reluctance on the part of historians of the Italian American experience to confront the discrimination faced by Italians and Americans of Italian ancestry.

  • - Competing Narratives of Nationhood
    af Bjorn Thomassen & Rosario Forlenza
    1.425,95 kr.

    By revisiting Italian political history from the late nineteenth century until the present with a focus on transition periods, Italian Modernities explores how competing historical narratives influenced shifting understandings of Italian nationhood, thus foregrounding the active role of memory politics in the formulation of multiple modernities.

  • af Cristina M. Bettin
    604,95 - 703,95 kr.

    The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect. In this book, Bettin examines the debate between integration and assimilation in the early twentieth century and Jewish culture to trace the 'rebirth of Judaism' that characterized the period.

  • af Nicoletta Pireddu
    548,95 kr.

    Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward.

  • af John Foot
    1.069,95 - 1.163,95 kr.

    This book argues that contemporary Italian history has been marked by a tendency towards divided memory. This book will take the form of a voyage through Italy (and into Italy's past), looking at stories of divided memory over various periods in the twentieth century.

  • - Cultural Amnesia and Postwar Politics
    af M. Battini
    824,95 kr.

    This book explores how the trial of the entire military command of the Nazi power structure in Italy, prepared by the Allies following the Nuremberg mode, came to be replaced by a few contradictory trials of very minor significance. This resulted in an enormous historical misrepresentation of the Nazi occupation of Italy.

  • - Posthumanist Reflections
    af J. Druker
    824,95 kr.

    This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.

  • - Transformations in Society and Culture
     
    962,95 kr.

    An extraordinary series of murders and political assassinations has marked contemporary Italian history, from the killing of the king in 1900 to the assassination of former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. This book explores well-known and lesser-known assassinations and murders in their historical, political and cultural contexts.

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    1.099,95 kr.

    Italian Colonialism is a pioneering anthology of texts by scholars from seven countries who represent the best of classical and newer approaches to the study of Italian colonization.

  • - An Early Modern History
    af G. Hanlon
    879,95 kr.

    Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the Seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us.

  • - Children and Danger in the Liberal Era
    af C. Ipsen
    879,95 kr.

    Detailing the development of a new Western attitude to children and their place in society, this book tells the story of Italy's forgotten children at the end of the nineteenth century - foundlings, street children, factory and mine workers, emigrants and delinquents - and illustrates the efforts of the recently unified Italian state to help them.

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