Dipartimento di Filologia

... Highly important to Bolchi s / Viceré project was the contribution by Lucio Mandarà, who accepted my invitation to be interviewed on the subject. ... emerges with certainty, and which serves also to explain De Roberto's long-lived oblivion, is the profane, cruel, distur-bing nature of ...

... | Ayuda. Fredric Jameson e il marxismo all'aporèma. Autores: Margherita Ganeri; Localización: Moderna: semestrale di teoria e critica della letteratura, ISSN 1128-6326, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2008 , pags. 43-60. © 2001-2010 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los derechos reservados. ...

Da alcuni all~i Si• Wbatte sulla possibi}!ra di utiliu,are ai1che in ambitO italiano . • la categoria critica di modernismo,. attra\'erso la •• --4uale-deftaire •quel periodo letterario di inizio secolo,. contraddistinto da forti istanze innoYative e sperimentali; coniugate però con un legame • scisso con la precedente tra~izion,e ottocentesca. Questo libro, attrm•erso .undici saggi di altrettanti ~1Udiosi, si pò11e l'obiettivo di 'inqwidtare teoricamente •il concetto dl modernismo -indicandone possibili confini cronologici~ caratteristiche . epistemologiche, specifici procedimenti tecnico-stilistici -e di verificarne l'efficacia critica attraverso la •lettura di. alcuni degli autori più significativi del •Novecento italiano:

N el bene o nel male, nessuno mette più in discussione, oggi, dopo oltre un trentennio, l'avvenuta trasformazione del termine 'cultura', dovuta alla massiccia, seppure spesso controversa, diffusione dei cultural studies nel mondo occidentale. Meno riconosciuti sono, invece, ancora oggi, gli effetti che questa diramata temperie teorica di marca statunitense ha prodotto sulle circolanti idee di storia e sui metodi e le forme di molta storiografia corrente. La pubblicazione, nel 2009, del dibattuto A New Literary History of America, a cura di Greil Marcus e Werner Sollors, 1 e due ampie recensioni uscite recentemente in italia 2 ci offrono l'occasione per riflettere su alcune conseguenze di questa infiltrazione sul terreno della storiografia, e per provare a tentare un bilancio, pur circoscritto al caso, e quindi pur parziale e limitato, sulle possibili implicazioni della trasmutazione concettuale e cognitiva in atto. in questo intervento analizzo la proposta teorica che anima il libro-una proposta per molti versi, soprattutto per il lettore italiano, spiazzante-, tentando di rapportarla al suo contesto di produzione, con l'intento di considerarla sintomo e significante di una Weltanschauung destinata a propagarsi inesorabilmente, forse, verso le nostre latitudini. anzitutto qualche parola sui due curatori, di provenienza e formazione diverse : Werner Sollors è un affermato docente dell'Università di Harvard, dove insegna letteratura inglese, comparata e afroamericana. Essendosi occupato a lungo di studi afro-americani, come la più larga parte degli studiosi di minorities, è stato spesso etichettato come un critico etnico e tematico. E, in effetti, la sua vasta produzione si distingue per una serie di importanti ricerche afferenti a queste aree, travalicanti, spesso, gli ambiti delle comunità di minoranza. in Beyond Ethnicity, 3 ad es., ipotizza che l'appartenenza a un sentimento comunitario sia una componente fondamentale del modernismo americano, piuttosto che una sua antitesi.

... | Ayuda. Le narrazioni storiche e lo spettro dell'impegno. Autores: Margherita Ganeri; Localización: Moderna: semestrale di teoria e critica della letteratura, ISSN 1128-6326, Vol. 8, Nº. 1-2, 2006 , pags. 17-34. © 2001-2010 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los derechos reservados ...

his volume is the outcome of the conference Re-Mapping Italian America. Places, Cultures, Identities, held on May 12-13, 2016 at Roma Tre University, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere. On that occasion, we had the privilege of hosting as keynote speakers Mary Jo Bona, Fred L. Gardaphé, and Anthony Julian Tamburri, whose inspiring lectures and conversations fired up a lively exchange of views on a field of study still under-explored in many ways, especially in Italy. To our great delight, Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Tony Ardizzone generously accepted our invitation as guest writers and engaged in substantial readings from their works, while delivering captivating interviews that involved the audience and our students in a still ongoing dialogue. Filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno were also part of this event via video-conference, sharing clips of their works-screened for the first time in Italy-and granting us a thought-provoking interview. We thank them also for providing the cover image to this book. The idea of the conference was first conceived in the spring of 2010, in the aftermath of lectures held by Fred L. Gardaphé on Italian/American literature and culture that we both attended at the Centro Studi Americani in Rome, where we met. The entire project and the present volume were made possible by the continuous involvement and support provided by Anthony Julian Tamburri and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY). A special "thank you" goes to Bordighera Press and to Nicholas Grosso for his editorial assistance. Among our colleagues at Roma Tre University we wish to thank Veronica Pravadelli for granting us crucial support from the Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale di Studi Americani (CRISA). Our gratitude also goes to Richard Ambrosini, Cristina Giorcelli, and Luca Ratti (Roma Tre University), as well as to Donatella Izzo (University of Naples "L'Orientale") and Giorgio Mariani (Sa-T "Acknowledgments" x pienza University of Rome) for chairing panels and generating intense, lively discussions with the audience. We owe a heartfelt thanks to Giuseppe Nori for his presence on behalf of the Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani (AISNA). Marina Camboni and Valerio Massimo De Angelis, in turn, kindly accepted our invitation to present the Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi ItaloAmericani (CISIA) of the University of Macerata. Invaluable technical support was provided by Claudio Mosticone and Davide Bevilacqua, while ongoing assistance was offered by the administrative staff of the Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere at Roma Tre University. We wish to thank them all. Sabrina Vellucci • "Re-Mapping the Field" xxi the individual lives out his/her daily life" (Tamburri 67). Beyond all traditional geo-cultural confines, the "Italian" world Tamburri envisions "surpasses every restrictive, reductive, and essentialist conceptual barrier" (69) and includes non-Italian writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri along with other writers of the Italian diaspora, in a process of "transcultural evolution" that allows for a more profound understanding of the "transnational discourse in which Italians engage but that, from a hegemonic point of view, they do not recognize" (75). In her contribution entitled "Italian American Studies in the Italian University's System: Current and Future Perspective," Margherita Ganeri argues that introducing courses on Italian/American literature and culture in the Italian academic system would be a valuable and strategic move, especially in terms of curricula development. In order to substantiate her assertion, she illustrates the case of the successful pioneering program "Cultura e Letteratura Italiana Americana" (CLIA), established at the University of Calabria in 2014. Acknowledging the intrinsic transnational and interdisciplinary character of Italian/American Studies, Ganeri upholds the necessity of an ongoing exchange between Italy and the different countries and cultures of the Italian diaspora, not only to foster understanding of the "mobile and dynamic constructions of 'Italianità'" (Ganeri 308), but also as a way to further innovative research in Italian Studies and the humanities in general. Even more important, Ganeri asserts, "Diaspora studies have an ethical and social purpose […] to promote civilization and social progress […] on a national, but also on a transnational level" (Ganeri 317). Stefano Luconi's essay, "Military Nationalism and the Re-Elaboration of Ethnicity: Italian Americans and World War I," examines how the patriotic discourse surrounding the Great War contributed to redefining the identity of both Italian newcomers and their progeny in the United States. If, at first, the dynamics of the Italian resettlement overseas strengthened the immigrants' localis-

those who returned to Italy. In fact, they had even less. They never learned the language of the country in which they had decided to li ve and of which they had become citizens. There was never a storyteller-eyewitness like Abraham Cahan, the Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant that, a few months after landing in America, was already writing articles and short stories. His writings are vi vid, deep, indispensable to anyone who wants to reftect on the cultura! shock of every migration, the clash between distant cultures, adaptation, habituation, resignation or success. But Abraham Cahan belonged to the people of the book: by ancient tradition, writing was an essential component of his identity. For ltalians, a people of storytellers and singers, miles away from the books, the English language was a painful and rare conquest-worthy of heroic characters such as Emanuel Carnevali or Pascal D'Angelo. They were just a few years younger than my grandfather and, like him, they emigrated when they were very young. They li ved in America the same harsh experiences: working on the railways or in sordid kitchens, the hunger, the angry dream to master the language of the new world that, as they soon realized, was the golden key to really get into this new world. Both of them, like my grandfather, became ili for the hardships and fatigue they had to suffer: what's more, my grandfather and Carnevali contracted in America the disease that killed them when they were still young, and both were repatriated in ltaly while ill, with a suitcase full of broken dreams. These men were really twin souls of Diamante Mazzucco: their pages move me as if they were a written message from him. But my grandfather did not become a writer. They had struggled with a language that he had dreamed of owning, but-unlike him-they had succedeed in mastering it. They were great poets, great storytellers, great artists. To my grandfather, however, the English language remained an inaccessible mountain, an unclimbed peak. So, forali the other ltalians in America, the story of their experience had to wait for a new generati on to emerge. There was a sort of underground sinking into the new world. Then, after a silence of three decades or more, Italians-now second-generation Italian Americansresurfaced, almost suddenly, one after the other. This time they were no longer human and literary 'sad cases', but authors with a brilliant career, published by major publishers, such as Viking Press or Random House. The bloom was intense, short, like a ftame. As far as I know, aside from some occasionai anticipati on (such as The Son of an lmmigrant by Constantine Panunzio, 1921, and The Fire in the Flesh and Mount Gennaro by Garibaldi M. Lapolla, 1931 and 1935 respectively), it can be pinpointed between 1937, when the story Christ in concrete by Pietro Di Donato appeared in the maga-•:•;