Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-67885-9
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean

Reconsidering the Mediterranean, appreciating and demarginalizing the peoples and cultures of this vast region, while considering the affinities and differences, is a valuable part of the process of unframing and reframing the concept of the Mediterranean. The authors of this volume follow Franco Cassano’s refusal of a sort of prêt-à-porter reality of cohabitation of cultures, introducing instead un’alternativa mediterranea, a world of multiple cultures that entails an ongoing learning and experiencing. The volume’s contributors use an interdisciplinary approach that mirrors the hybridity of the area and of the discipline, that is much more introspective and humanistic, more contemporary and inclusive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Summerfield, Giovanna

Weitere Mitwirkende

Summerfield, Giovanna

Pollicino, Rosario

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities

Giovanna Summerfield

1 Places and Moments of Mediterranean Reason: A Critical Reconnaissance

Antonio Cecere

2 Three’s a Crowd? Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as Representative Third Place

Jessica R. Boll

3 Women at the Spanish Mediterranean Border: The Liminal Space of Legality

Stefania Licata

4 A Mediterranean Theater: Different Representations of Muslim Otherness in Early Modern Maltese Public Feasts

Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri

5 Elated Images of Jahiliyah in Sicilian Decorative Arts of the Twelfth Century: The Islamic Iconography of Divertissement

Valentina Grasso

6 The Madonna delle Milizie di Scicli and the Legacies of Contact in Sicily

Sherine Hafez

7 A Porous Mediterranean Écriture Féminine: Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto

Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

8 Marriage Annulment Lawsuits in XIX Century Sicily

Elena Frasca

9 Sicily, Spain and the Mediterranean in Leonardo Sciascia’s Literary Production

Marco Pioli

10 A Journey in Search of the Ancient Flavors of Sicily

Gastro-tourism: Critical Issues and Opportunities for Development

Maria Sorbello

11 Southern European Clientelism

A Case Study, Catania (Sicily): From Mass Party to Leader-Centered Clientelism

Giuseppe Serrantino

12 A Long Migration

Cooperatives Practices and Social Innovation in Mediterranean Europe (1848–1900)

Samuel Boscarello

13 Towards a “Mediterranean Social Model”?

Welfare Policies in Italy and Spain during the Interwar Period

Elena Serina

14 Tracing “New Mediterranean Borders” through Artworks and Theater

Rosario Pollicino

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Giovanna Summerfield, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Italian and French at Auburn University. She has published extensively on French and Italian literature, women’s studies, and Mediterranean studies. She serves as editor of Italica and co-editor of I.S. Med. - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean.


Rosario Pollicino, Ph.D. (2019), is Instructor of Italian Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He has published on Italian colonialism, transnational Italy and Mediterranean studies. He serves as co-editor of I.S. Med. - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean.

Contributors are: Antonio Cecere, Jessica Boll, Stefania Licata, Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri, Valentina Grasso, Sherine Hafez, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, Elena Frasca, Marco Pioli, Maria Sorbello, Giuseppe Serrantino, Samuel Boscarello, Elena Serina.