Italy, Islam and the Islamic World

Charles Burdett is Professor of Italian at the University of Bristol. The principal area of his research is the representation of intercultural contact in modern Italian literature and culture. He has written on literary culture in the 1920s and 1930s, travel and travel writing in Italy under Fascism, the history of Italian expansionism and the memory of colonialism. He is currently working on the AHRC-funded project «Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures».

• Contents: 9/11: The Islamic World as Other in Oriana Fallaci’s «Trilogy» – The War on Terror: Journeys of Writers and Journalists through Iraq and Afghanistan – Representations of Islamic Communities in Italy – Literary Representations of Islam and Italy – Voices of Tahrir Square: Representations of Egypt and the Arab Uprisings.

«Charles Burdett’s succinct yet exhaustive analysis of the relationship between Italy, Islam, and the Islamic world focuses on a corpus of texts that have played a seminalrole in shaping the cultural debate in Italy from 9/11 to the Arab Spring, revealing a wide intellectual breadth in his study.»(Marino Forlino, Modern Language Review, 113.1, 2018)