Narratives of Mediterranean spaces : literature and art across land and sea / Silvia Caserta.
2022
PN56.E59
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Narratives of Mediterranean spaces : literature and art across land and sea / Silvia Caserta.
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9783031077739 (electronic bk.)
3031077733 (electronic bk.)
3031077725
9783031077722
3031077733 (electronic bk.)
3031077725
9783031077722
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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English
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10.1007/978-3-031-07773-9 doi
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PN56.E59
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809.93321822
Summary
Narratives of Mediterranean Space: Literature and Art across Land and Sea presents a comparative analysis of contemporary literary and visual narratives of movement and migration produced in Italian, Arabic and French. It analyzes how these works create a dialogue across the Mediterranean Sea. By paying attention to the multiple ways in which the Mediterranean is being narrated by contemporary writers and artists, Silvia Caserta aims to propose a reconceptualization of the Mediterranean as a polyphonic space of movement and resistance. The Mediterranean space that emerges from this study is a space that, by virtue of the instability and porosity of its geographical and cultural borders, is able to overcome normative dichotomies between north and south, east and west, local and global. This book proposes the Mediterranean is a fruitful area from which to investigate the wider contradictions of the contemporary global world while avoiding the traps of "Mediterraneanism". For this reason, the book highlights the contradictions and dissonances that emerge from reading Mediterranean works, opening up multiple perspectives on the Sea and on the different lands that surround it. Silvia Caserta is Associate Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her research focuses on contemporary Italian literature and culture, approached within the broader cultural and geographical framework of the Mediterranean. .
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Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. What (is the) Mediterranean
Chapter 2. Narratives of the Sea Contemporary Migration across the Mediterranean
Chapter 3. Narratives of Land and Sea. The Island, the Boat, and the Lighthouse
Chapter 4. Narratives of the Desert. Reconfiguring Movement Across the Sahara
Chapter 5. Conclusion: Re-inventing the Odyssey.
Chapter 2. Narratives of the Sea Contemporary Migration across the Mediterranean
Chapter 3. Narratives of Land and Sea. The Island, the Boat, and the Lighthouse
Chapter 4. Narratives of the Desert. Reconfiguring Movement Across the Sahara
Chapter 5. Conclusion: Re-inventing the Odyssey.