@article{940632,
      recid = {940632},
      author = {Ferrera, Enrica Maria.},
      title = {Posthumanism in Italiam literature and film : boundaries  and identity /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2020},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {'This volume of essays makes a powerful argument for the  distinctiveness of the Italian contribution to contemporary  debates on the posthuman. The contributors to Posthumanism  in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity  show how the culture that gave the world modern European  humanism has also produced some of the most radical and  searching critiques of what it is to be human in the modern  and late modern age. -- Michael Cronin, Professor of  French, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and author of  Eco-translation (2017) 'Brilliantly edited by Enrica Maria  Ferrara, Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film  expands the canon of posthumanist literary studies,  enriching it with unexpected topics and voices. In a  dazzling sequence of chapters on Leopardi, Pirandello,  Elena Ferrante, Gianni Celati, Michelangelo Antonioni, and  a number of contemporary storytellers and filmmakers, the  authors of this fascinating book follow the human as it  emerges from a tangle of organic and inorganic substances,  DNA and energy sources, mobile phones and microbes,  technology and politics. An engaging read, it is yet  another testimony to the established presence of Italian  culture on the scene of posthumanities. -- Serenella  Iovino, Professor of Italian Studies and Environmental  Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,  USA As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the  nonhuman world of animals, inanimate entities and  technological artefacts, new identities are formed and a  new epistemological and ethical approach to reality is  needed. Through twelve thought-provoking, scholarly essays,  this volume analyzes works by a range of modern and  contemporary Italian authors, from Giacomo Leopardi to  Elena Ferrante, who have captured the shift from  anthropocentrism and postmodernism to posthumanism. Indeed,  this is the first academic volume investigating narrative  configurations of posthuman identity in Italian literature  and film.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/940632},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39},
}