Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172784
Simone Brioni, Gianmarco Mancosu
The article analyzes Beyond the Frame (Oltre i bordi, 2023), a film based on Simone Brioni's fortuitous discovery of a family archive: a box of photographs taken in Italian East Africa in the 1930s by a distant relative. Beyond the Frame discusses colonial photography and visuality, as well as the material legacies of that past, challenging the gaze through which they framed the subjective and collective idea of Africa in Italian society. The article is divided into two parts, each of which discusses colonial photography and how Beyond the Frame observes, interprets, and reflects on how the legacy of colonialism shapes our present. In the first part, Brioni traces the process that led to the construction of a narrative that interweaves personal reflections and collective history. In the second part, Gianmarco Mancosu draws upon Ann Laura Stoler's work to discuss how the colonial archive and the remains of empire fashion our present, with a particular emphasis on photography and on colonial traces in the Italian cityscape. The article shows how the film works with as well as against the archive: how it enacts a process of resignification, thus modifying the original meaning of colonial pictures.
这篇文章分析了《框架之外》（Oltre i bordi，2023），这是一部基于西蒙·布里奥尼偶然发现一个家庭档案的电影：一盒20世纪30年代由一位远房亲戚在意大利东非拍摄的照片。《框架之外》讨论了殖民摄影和视觉，以及过去的物质遗产，挑战了他们在意大利社会中构建非洲主观和集体观念的凝视。这篇文章分为两个部分，每个部分都讨论了殖民摄影，以及超越框架如何观察、解释和反思殖民主义的遗产如何塑造我们的现在。在第一部分中，布里奥尼追溯了一个将个人反思和集体历史交织在一起的叙事构建过程。在第二部分中，Gianmarco Mancosu借鉴了Ann Laura Stoler的作品，讨论了殖民档案和帝国遗迹是如何塑造我们现在的，特别强调了摄影和意大利城市景观中的殖民痕迹。这篇文章展示了这部电影是如何与档案馆合作以及对抗档案馆的：它如何上演一个辞职的过程，从而改变了殖民地画面的原意。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1177/00145858231166914
Marco Menicacci
La traduzione del Torquato Tasso di Goethe rappresenta un fondamentale punto di svolta nell’attività del germanista e grecista Leone Traverso: dopo aver fatto chiarezza sulla cronologia di tale impresa e aver discusso le riflessioni storico-critiche che l’hanno accompagnata, si passa ad analizzarne alcuni passaggi per mostrarne originalità, efficacia e scelte metrico-stilistiche. Anche attraverso un confronto con la ben più recente traduzione di Cesare Lievi, si mettono poi in luce finalità teorico-critiche, metodi e risultati del lavoro di Leone Traverso, inserendolo nel più ampio orizzonte culturale del cosiddetto “ermetismo fiorentino”.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172720
Claudio Fogu
This article illustrates the three criteria underpinning the creation of a Transnational Italian Studies major at UCSB in 2020: translation, imaginary, and nation-ness.
本文阐述了UCSB在2020年开设跨国意大利研究专业的三个标准:翻译、想象和民族性。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172190
Margherita Ganeri
In this essay, I will illustrate the mission and the most significant innovative teaching activities promoted by the Italian Diaspora Studies Seminar, a research center founded in 2017 at the University of Calabria, where I work. The Seminar aims to promote scholarly research into the abovementioned fields while building educational programs inspired by them. In particular, we investigate the perspective of specific Italian transnationalism that identifies itself with the network of Italian diasporic literature disseminated worldwide. Our goal is not limited to research; we seek to pursue a proactive perspective. It is a fact that contemporary writers of Italian heritage are generally unaware of contemporary Italian writers and that many of them are not familiar even with the Italian canonical masterpieces from the past, and the same goes vice versa. For this reason, our mission is to create new bridges to fill these gaps. One of the purposes of the “Italian Diaspora Seminar” is the ambition to investigate the opportunity to create, both theoretically and pragmatically, an inclusive ground in which to detect and promote new connections among Italian, diasporic, and migrant Italian contemporary writers. Our goal is to reinforce a sense of community that will lay the foundations for the growth of inclusive, inter-dialoguing, and unified Italian transnational literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172185
Gaoheng Zhang
In this article, I explain what the Chinese proverb “clothing, food, residence, mobility” entails, how I use it to broadly frame my current scholarship, what this practice means in relation to my idea of Transnational Italian Studies, the trajectory through which I came to use it, and the potential conceptual problems it may pose. I show that this adoption as an organizing principle of my work shows some decolonizing of the conventions of Italian Studies, which is one direction within Transnational Italian Studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00145858221127286
Madison U. Sowell
tionship to Dante (349) and demonstrates how “Petrarch restricted Dante’s cultural status to that of a love poet” and “reduced Dante simply to one such poet among a large ‘schiera’ of erotic versifiers—a radical curtailment of [Dante’s] contemporary image” (357–358). In reviewing the large number of references to Orpheus and various Orphic elements in the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, Barański speculates “whether Petrarch’s Canzoniere may not in fact be the great overlooked Orphic text of the Western tradition” (411) and correctly argues (from my viewpoint) that the Canzoniere’s focus is “not on Laura but on the poet, not least because the woman is nothing but a projection of the self’s imagination” (420). In “Guido Cavalcanti and his First Readers” (443–469), Barański insightfully reviews Guido’s status as an auctoritas and Boccaccio’s recasting in Decameron VI.9 of the older poet in a positive light, in contrast to Dante’s negative portrayal of him as an implied heretic in Inferno 10. The last essay, perhaps the most provocative, explores “the question of the role played in the Middle Ages by obscenity and scatology” (606) and “the proper and improper use of language” (610) relative to Inferno 18’s excrement-besmirched flatterers, concluding that the canto’s contrapassi constitute “moral assertions of the ways in which [the sinfulness of panders, seducers, and flatterers] perverted the divine gift of speech” (613). This handsomely edited tome, which I heartily recommend to literary scholars and historians of the Trecento, concludes with a list of Barański’s publications, a general index, a useful index of references, and an index of manuscripts.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00145858221135654
Serena Ferrando
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00145858221129892
A. Valentini
tizza, come già molti altri, e a conferma del volantino di rivendicazione delle BR, che l’attentato avrebbe dovuto essere un avvertimento non letale, un “limitarsi a invalidare la spia” (175), ma che Riccardo Dura, invece, forse eccitato da una reazione orale sfidante di Rossa già gambizzato, alla Montanelli, sia tornato sui suoi passi per uccidere. Questo libro di Luzzatto forse non si distingue per apportare novità sull’omicidio di Rossa, ma è il primo studio che indaga sulle sue origini e lo colloca in una cornice storica e sociale che rende giustizia alla figura protagonista. Trovo che il saggio vada letto in parallelo con il seminale libro-inchiesta della figlia di Guido, Sabina Rossa, scritto insieme al giornalista Giovanni Fasanella: Guido Rossa, mio padre (Rizzoli, 2006, 199 pp., 8,80€), perché anche in quel caso non ci troviamo dinanzi a un “monumento di carta” in favore del papà ucciso, ma a un saggio investigativo ricco di rigore, forte di interviste con un cospicuo numero di ex terroristi e di ex servitori dello Stato, e lo sviluppo di una tesi degna. I due lavori, se letti insieme, mettono bene in controluce l’isolamento di Guido Rossa all’interno dell’Italsider, ma anche della CGIL. Un isolamento riconosciuto dallo stesso sindacato, con un celebre discorso di Lama, ma in definitiva ammesso anche dal consiglio di fabbrica dell’Italsider che avrebbe dovuto denunciare il postino delle BR anziché lasciare l’incombenza sulle sole spalle di Guido Rossa.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00145858221133040
A. Elia
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/00145858221127265
Sciltian Gastaldi
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