Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities

Daniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, Marco Malvestio (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2023
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80207-870-1 (ISBN)

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This volume explores Italian science fiction from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, covering literary texts, films, music and visual works by figures as diverse as Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Peter Kolosimo, Primo Levi, Antonio Margheriti, Gilda Musa and Roberto Vacca. It broadens the horizons of both Italian studies and the environmental humanities by addressing a long-neglected genre, and expands our understanding of relations between the ecological, the imaginary and the sociopolitical. The chapters draw on a variety of methodological frameworks, including animal studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, eco-media studies, energy humanities and posthumanism. The reader will gain insights into consequential topics such as anthropocentrism/speciesism, ecomodernist thought, environmental justice struggles at the planetary and regional level, non-human and new materialist ontologies, utopian/dystopian philosophies and prospects for transitioning beyond the crisis of petro-modernity through the construction of post-depletion futures.

Open Access versions of the introduction and six of the book chapters are available on the Liverpool University Press website.

Daniel A. Finch-Race is an Assistant Professor in Geography in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. Emiliano Guaraldo is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Marco Malvestio is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padua.

Introduction: Greening Italian Science Fiction – New Approaches to a Long-Lasting Genre

Daniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, Marco Malvestio

Section I: Science in the Anthropocene

Herbert Pagani’s Mégalopolis: A Rock Opera between Dystopian Science Fiction and Ecological Utopia

Eleonora Lima

Cultural and Ecological Extinction in Primo Levi’s Science-Fiction

Michele Maiolani

What Kind of Science? Italian Science Fiction Writers against the Economic Boom

Daniele Comberiati

Section II: Visions of Extinction

Ecofeminist Care at the End of the World: Collaborative Survival in Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s L’isola delle Madri

Raffaella Baccolini and Chiara Xausa

Barbarism, Animalization, and the End of the World: Fantasies of Regression and Mutation in Italian Science Fiction

Simona Micali

A Post-Apocalyptic Garden of Eden. Marco Ferreri’s Il Seme dell’Uomo

Emiliano Guaraldo

Section III: Urban Landscapes and Industrial Capitalism in a Rapidly Changing Country

Industrial Wonders and Pitfalls in Émile Souvestre’s Le Monde tel qu’il sera en l’an 3000 (1846) and Agostino della Sala Spada’s Nel 2073! (1874)

Daniel A. Finch-Race

Spaceships in the Anthropocene: Peter Kolosimo and the End of (Our) Times

Marco Malvestio

Uncanny Spaces in Inhuman Times: The Art of Giacomo Costa

Matteo Gilebbi

Against Eco-Fascism: Space and Place in Tullio Avoledo’s Furland

Florian Mussgnug

Section IV: Posthuman, More-than-Human, and Interspecies Relations

Green Traces: Vegetal Imagination in Italian Science Fiction from Gilda Musa to Solarpunk

Enrico Cesaretti

Bonsai Children, Enchanted Gardens: Nature as Artifice in Paolo Zanotti’s Dystopian Fairy Tale

Valentina Fulginiti

‘All We Need is Love’?: Eros, Agape, and Koinonia in the Time of Mass Extinction

Danila Cannamela

Eco-Horror: Human-Animal Encounters in Italian Science-Fiction Films

Robert A. Rushing

Solarpunk, or rather Solartivismo: An Interview with Francesco Verso

Arielle Saiber

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies ; 80
Zusatzinfo	9 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80207-870-3 / 1802078703
ISBN-13	978-1-80207-870-1 / 9781802078701
Zustand	Neuware