Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era

Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era

Description

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. This interdisciplinary volume puts Italian artists (writers, musicians, and filmmakers) and intellectuals (philosophers, sociologists, and political scientists) in conversation with each other to explore Italy's Mediterranean identity while questioning the boundaries between Self and Other, and between native and foreign bodies. By moving beyond nation-centric models of cultural and ethnic homogeneity based on myths of progress and rationality, these wide-ranging contributions fashion new ways of belonging that transcend the cultural, economic, religious, and social categories that have characterized post Cold War Italy and Europe.

Publication Date

2013

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN

978-1-137-34345-1

Keywords

culture, exile, Mediterranean, tradition

Disciplines

Italian Language and Literature

Department / Organizational Unit

Executive Leadership

Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era

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