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Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities
Series: - Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean, Volume: 7
Reconsidering the Mediterranean, appreciating and demarginalizing the peoples and cultures of this vast region, while considering the affinities and differences, is a valuable part of the process of unframing and reframing the concept of the Mediterranean. The authors of this volume follow Franco Cassano’s refusal of a sort of prêt-à-porter reality of cohabitation of cultures, introducing instead un’alternativa mediterranea, a world of multiple cultures that entails an ongoing learning and experiencing. The volume’s contributors use an interdisciplinary approach that mirrors the hybridity of the area and of the discipline, that is much more introspective and humanistic, more contemporary and inclusive.
Giovanna Summerfield, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Italian and French at Auburn University. She has published extensively on French and Italian literature, women’s studies, and Mediterranean studies. She serves as editor of Italica and co-editor of I.S. Med. - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean.
Rosario Pollicino, Ph.D. (2019), is Instructor of Italian Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He has published on Italian colonialism, transnational Italy and Mediterranean studies. He serves as co-editor of I.S. Med. - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean.
Contributors are: Antonio Cecere, Jessica Boll, Stefania Licata, Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri, Valentina Grasso, Sherine Hafez, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, Elena Frasca, Marco Pioli, Maria Sorbello, Giuseppe Serrantino, Samuel Boscarello, Elena Serina.
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities
Giovanna Summerfield
1 Places and Moments of Mediterranean Reason: A Critical Reconnaissance
Antonio Cecere
2 Three’s a Crowd? Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as Representative Third Place
Jessica R. Boll
3 Women at the Spanish Mediterranean Border: The Liminal Space of Legality
Stefania Licata
4 A Mediterranean Theater: Different Representations of Muslim Otherness in Early Modern Maltese Public Feasts
Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri
5 Elated Images of Jāhilīyah in Sicilian Decorative Arts of the Twelfth Century: The Islamic Iconography of Divertissement
Valentina Grasso
6 The Madonna delle Milizie di Scicli and the Legacies of Contact in Sicily
Sherine Hafez
7 A Porous Mediterranean Écriture Féminine: Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto
Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
8 Marriage Annulment Lawsuits in XIX Century Sicily
Elena Frasca
9 Sicily, Spain and the Mediterranean in Leonardo Sciascia’s Literary Production
Marco Pioli
10 A Journey in Search of the Ancient Flavors of Sicily
Gastro-tourism: Critical Issues and Opportunities for Development
Maria Sorbello
11 Southern European Clientelism
A Case Study, Catania (Sicily): From Mass Party to Leader-Centered Clientelism
Giuseppe Serrantino
12 A Long Migration
Cooperatives Practices and Social Innovation in Mediterranean Europe (1848–1900)
Samuel Boscarello
13 Towards a “Mediterranean Social Model”?
Welfare Policies in Italy and Spain during the Interwar Period
Elena Serina
14 Tracing “New Mediterranean Borders” through Artworks and Theater
Rosario Pollicino
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities
Giovanna Summerfield
1 Places and Moments of Mediterranean Reason: A Critical Reconnaissance
Antonio Cecere
2 Three’s a Crowd? Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as Representative Third Place
Jessica R. Boll
3 Women at the Spanish Mediterranean Border: The Liminal Space of Legality
Stefania Licata
4 A Mediterranean Theater: Different Representations of Muslim Otherness in Early Modern Maltese Public Feasts
Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri
5 Elated Images of Jāhilīyah in Sicilian Decorative Arts of the Twelfth Century: The Islamic Iconography of Divertissement
Valentina Grasso
6 The Madonna delle Milizie di Scicli and the Legacies of Contact in Sicily
Sherine Hafez
7 A Porous Mediterranean Écriture Féminine: Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto
Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
8 Marriage Annulment Lawsuits in XIX Century Sicily
Elena Frasca
9 Sicily, Spain and the Mediterranean in Leonardo Sciascia’s Literary Production
Marco Pioli
10 A Journey in Search of the Ancient Flavors of Sicily
Gastro-tourism: Critical Issues and Opportunities for Development
Maria Sorbello
11 Southern European Clientelism
A Case Study, Catania (Sicily): From Mass Party to Leader-Centered Clientelism
Giuseppe Serrantino
12 A Long Migration
Cooperatives Practices and Social Innovation in Mediterranean Europe (1848–1900)
Samuel Boscarello
13 Towards a “Mediterranean Social Model”?
Welfare Policies in Italy and Spain during the Interwar Period
Elena Serina
14 Tracing “New Mediterranean Borders” through Artworks and Theater
Rosario Pollicino
Index
Potential readers will be scholars of Mediterranean Studies and Gender Studies but also students of History, Cultural studies, Comparative Literature, Art; social scientists, academic libraries, and bookstores.