Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy–as a territory of both matter and imagination–through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches–including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies–to move past cliché and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia’s trafficking, Slow Food’s gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites, and nonhuman creatures.
At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions, but the entire debate on environmental culture.
Contributors: Marco Armiero, Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm * Franco Arminio, Writer, poet, and filmmaker * Patrick Barron, University of Massachusetts * Damiano Benvegnù, Dartmouth College and the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics * Viktor Berberi, University of Minnesota, Morris * Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University * Luca Bugnone, University of Turin * Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia *Almo Farina, University of Urbino * Sophia Maxine Farmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Serena Ferrando, Colby College * Tiziano Fratus, Writer, poet, and tree-seeker * Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University * Andrea Hajek, University of Warwick * Marcus Hall, University of Zurich * Serenella Iovino, University of Turin * Andrea Lerda, freelance curator * Roberto Marchesini, Study Center of Posthuman Philosophy in Bologna * Marco Moro, Editor-in-Chief of Edizioni Ambiente, Milan * Elena Past, Wayne State University * Carlo Petrini, Founder of International Slow Food Movement * Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, Miami University (Ohio)* Monica Seger, College of William and Mary * Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California, San Diego
Table of Content
1. Gianni Celati’s Voicing of Unpredictable Places (Patrick Barron)
2. An Ecology of Voices: The Soundscapes of Tuscany’s Lunigiana (Almo Farina)
3. ‘Birds Who Speak My Dialect’: Poetry, Birds, and Landscape in Andrea Zanzotto (Damiano Benvegnù)
4. Witnessing the Slaughter: Human and Nonhuman Animals in Ivano Ferrari’s Poetry (Matteo Gilebbi)
5. Dialogo Ergo Sum: My Pathway into Posthumanities (Roberto Marchesini)
6. Italo Calvino and the Landscapes of the Anthropocene: A Narrative Stratigraphy (Serenella Iovino)
7. Landscape, Folklife and Ethics in the Calabrian and Arbëreshë Novels of Carmine Abate (Viktor Berberi)
8. Terra in Dino Buzzati’s Fantastic Landscapes (Serena Ferrando)
9. Aeropittura: Modern Aviation and the Fascist Idealization of the Italian Landscape (Sophia Maxine Farmer)
10. On Places and Looking: Italy’s Silent Epiphanies (Franco Arminio)
11. Thinking Like a Parasite: Malaria, Plasmodium, and Sardinia’s Amazing Longevity (Marcus Hall)
12. Ascending Underground: An Ecocritical Way through the Susa Valley (Luca Bugnone)
13. Thinking on Foot in the Hydrocarbon Sublime: Paolo Sorrentino’s Petrocultures (Elena Past)
14. Slow Food and Terra Madre: A Conversation with Carlo Petrini on Ecology, Rural Traditions and New Food Cultures (Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan)
15. An Environmental Historian Among Activists: The Political, the Personal, and a Project of Guerrilla Narrative (Marco Armiero)
16. We Will Not Tremble: Healing the Body Politic Post-Earthquake (Emilia Romagna and Andrea Hajek)
17. Thinking Through Taranto: Toxic Embodiment, Eco-catastrophe and the Power of Narrative (Monica Seger)
18. Room with a View (of a Landfill): The Making of ‘Verdenero’ (Marco Moro)
19. This Nostrum that is Neither Sea nor Remedy: Mediterranean Revisions (Pasquale Verdicchio)
20. Eco-futurism? Nature, Matter, and Body in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Enrico Cesaretti)
21. Nature’s Creative Balance: On Italian Eco-Art (Andrea Lerda)
22. Walking Roots: Weaving Past and Future through Italy’s Woods (Tiziano Fratus)
Afterword: The Proper Study of Mankind is No Longer ‘Man’ (Rosi Braidotti)
About the author
Serenella Iovino is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin and the author of Ecocritism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation, winner of the 2016 Book Prize from the American Association for Italian Studies and of the MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies. Enrico Cesaretti is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia and the author of Fictions of Appetite: Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature. Elena Past is Associate Professor of Italian at Wayne State University and the author of Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction.
Enrico Cesaretti is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia and the author of Fictions of Appetite: Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature.
Elena Past is Associate Professor of Italian at Wayne State University and the author of Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction.
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