Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation (Environmental Cultures)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1350042013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2016Written by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining cases where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, pollution and redemption, the book argues that literature, art and criticism are able to transform the unexpressed voices of these suffering worlds into stories of resistance and practices of liberation.
Her book is in the deepest sense material-alive to the complex power of "storied matter+? to shape and animate the tectonic powers that are both political and more-than-human.Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Author of Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (2015). and Currie C. Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University, USASeamlessly interweaving philosophical reflection, political critique, geo-historical narrative, and literary exegesis, Iovino's arresting new book expands the trans-disciplinary repertoire of ecocriticism at the same time that it uncovers the more-than-human (re-)fashioning of exemplary Italian places and their global significance. Clear-sighted yet resolutely h
. Serenella Iovino is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin, Italy. She is a past president of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) and her previous books include Ecologia Letteraria (2006) and, as co-editor, Material Ecocriticism (2014)