Multiple Mediterranean. Myths, Utopias and Real-Life Experiences

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edited by Brit Helene Lyngstad, Sissel Lie and Geir Uvslokk. Fabrizo Serra, 2018, pp. 216 con figure in bianco/nero n.t. EARLY MODERN AND MODERN STUDIES - Collana diretta da Roy Eriksen -- The Mediterranean Sea is both a barrier and a passage, a meeting point and an arena for conflict, a reality and a dream. It carries with it a rich heritage from three separate continents - Africa, Asia, and Europe - comprising social and cultural oppositions and negotiations between North and South, East and West, and also dark shadows from a colonial past. The articles presented in this volume investigate diverse cultural manifestations of this multiple Mediterranean in modern literature, and illustrate its historical, political and existential influence as the cradle of Western civilisation. The literary works vary from novels written by artists who escaped from the dehumanising industrial and urban ambience of the North in the years after the First World War, to more recent works addressing various aspects of the postcolonial period. Many wanted to experience artistic or sensual liberty that they were unable to find in their home countries, others simply to discover themselves. For some, this journey of self-discovery goes hand in hand with the wish to shed light on their countries' violent and repressive pasts, far away, on the other side of the sea. (From the Introduction) Il Mar Mediterraneo è sia una barriera sia un luogo di passaggio, un punto di incontro e un campo di battaglia, una realtà e un sogno. Porta con sé un ricco patrimonio da tre continenti separati - Africa, Asia ed Europa - che comprende opposizioni e negoziazioni sociali e culturali tra Nord e Sud, Est e Ovest, e anche ombre oscure da un passato coloniale. Gli articoli presentati in questo volume indagano le diverse manifestazioni culturali di questo 'Mediterraneo multiplo' nella letteratura moderna e illustrano la sua influenza storica, politica ed esistenziale come culla della civiltà occidentale. Le opere letterarie variano da romanzi scritti da artisti sfuggiti al disumano ambiente industriale e urbano del Nord, negli anni successivi alla Prima Guerra Mondiale, a lavori più recenti che affrontano vari aspetti del periodo postcoloniale. Molti volevano sperimentare la libertà artistica o sensuale che non erano in grado di trovare nei loro paesi d'origine, altri semplicemente per scoprire se stessi. Per alcuni, questo viaggio di scoperta di sé va di pari passo con il desiderio di far luce sul passato violento e repressivo dei loro paesi, lontano, dall'altra parte del mare. (Dall'Introduzione) Contents: Introduction. Multiple Mediterranean. Myths, Utopias and Real-Life Experiences. Exploring the Mediterranean Coast: 1. Simonetta de Filippis, Close Encounters: D. H. Lawrence and Italy between Past and Present; 2. Niklas Salmose, Mediterranean Exotic as Nostalgia: Lost Worlds and Found Worlds in D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl; 3. Erik Tonning, European Paideuma: Ezra Pound's Mediterranean Modernism; 4. Rebecca Scherr, A Room Beneath the Sea: Sexuality, Race and Space in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room; 5. Bjarne Markussen, How Italy Shaped Jens Bjørneboe; 6. Roy Eriksen, The Mediterranean and the Dance of Life in John Berger's To the Wedding. Crossing the Mediterranean Sea: 7. Charles I. Armstrong, The Spirit of Transformation: W. B. Yeats, Leo Africanus, and the Mediterranean; 8. Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Migrating across the Mediterranean: T. S. Eliot's Language of Being; 9. Brit Helene Lyngstad, Algeria and the Grotesque in the Work of Marie Cardinal; 10. Sissel Lie, Medusa Turns Militant: Hélène Cixous and the Laughing Monster; 11. Ingvild Folkvord, Naming the World, Addressing the Other: Kamel Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête (2013); 12. Geir Uvsløkk, North-African Presence in the Novels of Patrick Modiano; 13. Bruna Mancini, A Mediterranean Island into the Tempest: Shakespeare, de Filippo, and Others. Contributors. Seller Inventory # ca1834

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