Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds

New Narratives from Italian Cultures to Global Citizenship

Professor or Dr. Angela Biancofiore, Dr. Clément Barniaudy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7897-3 (ISBN)

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This book invites readers to think of Mediterranean cultures as interconnected worlds, seen in light of how they evolve, disappear, are reborn and perpetually transform. This perspective intends to build bridges between the Northern and Southern coasts of the sea in order to broaden and deepen our understanding of current evolutions in Mediterranean worlds, at the cultural, literary, artistic and geopolitical levels. As Paul Valéry suggested, we can consider this plural space from the perspective of the intense cultural, economic and human exchanges which have always characterized the Mare Nostrum. We can also consider Mediterranean worlds within an open enactive process, deeply exploring their evolution between nature and culture, examining the natural environment and the transforming relationships between humans and non-humans.

The writers and researchers in Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds call for a dialog between the two coasts in order to connect what has been broken. In this volume, they highlight an intercultural and creolized conscience, traversing the Mediterranean worlds – including Italian, French and Tunisian cultures, but also migrations from, to and within the region – and transcending any idea of communitarian withdrawal. These essays express the urgent need to shift from an understanding of migration as suffering to the notion that mobility is an unalienable right, building foundations for a new idea of global citizenship.

Angela Biancofiore is Professor of Italian Studies at Paul Valéry University-Montpellier, France. She has published several books on Italian studies and Mediterranean literature and arts, including Pasolini, Palermo, Palumbo (2003), awarded with the 2006 international “G. Sormani” prize, and Soyons le changement… Nouvelles tendances dans la littérature italienne contemporaine. Une anthologie (2016). Clément Barniaudy is Associate Professor of Geography at University of Montpellier, France, and a member of the research center LIRDEF (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de recherche en Didactique, Education et Formation). He co-founded the center for Theories and Practices of Care, and co-led the research project, "Econarrative: Ecological Narratives as a factor of Resilience and Caring" (2020).

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Thinking Interconnected Worlds
Angela Biancofiore (Paul-Valéry University-Montpellier, France) & Clément Barniaudy (University of Montpellier, France)
1. Mediterranean Worlds: Towards an Ecology of Creation
Angela Biancofiore (Paul-Valéry University-Montpellier, France)
2. An Impossible Abode: The World and Modernity
Myriam Carminati (Paul-Valéry University-Montpellier, France)
3. Literary Sardness: Between Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Creoleness and Creolization
Margherita Marras (University of Avignon, France)
4. From House to Archipelago: Ways of Inhabiting Mediterranean Worlds
Clément Barniaudy (University of Montpellier, France)
5. Pasolini and the Mediterranean: Lost Cultural Worlds and the Reappearance of Archaic Worlds
Matthias Quemener (Helsinki French College, Finland)
6. The Mediterranean Panorama through Migrant Writers
Vittorio Valentino (Manouba University, Tunisia)
7. The Other Mediterranean: Italian Migration Poetry
Flaviano Pisanelli (Paul-Valéry University-Montpellier, France)
8. Naples and Europe, Past and Future: The Sud Review – A Link between the Mediterranean and Europe
Cathryn Baril (Paul-Valéry University-Montpellier, France)
9. The Mediterranean Town in Question
Raffaele Cattedra (University of Cagliari, Italy)
10. Testimony: Where Is Tunisia Going?
Fethi Nagga (University of Tunis, Tunisia)
11. Trilingualism in Tunisia: A Disturbing Topic
Alfonso Campisi (University of Tunis, Tunisia)
12. The Charter of Palermo: The Future of a Utopia
Jean Duflot (Independent Journalist, France)
Appendix: The Charter of Palermo
Subject Index
Names Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-5013-7897-X / 150137897X
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7897-3 / 9781501378973
Zustand	Neuware