New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies

Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language and Professor of Comparative Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, NH.

• ContentsDefinitions and TheoryDavid Forgacs “Intellectual and Subaltern Groups between Structure and Discourse: The Difficult Politics of Cultural Studies”Michele Cometa (Translated by Marie Orton) “Non Finito: The Form of Italian Cultural Studies”Elena Pulcini “Community and Globalization”Paolo Campolonghi “‘Le ceneri di Pasolini’: The Role of the Intellectuals from Nation to Alienation”Loredana Polezzi “Polylingual Writing and the Politics of Language in Today’s Italy”Paola Zaccaria “The Mediterranean Sea: Open Port or Border Wall?”Practice (Case Studies)Emilio Berrocal “‘Between His Gesture and My Smile’: Hip Hop Culture in Italy through the Figure of massiccio”Derek Duncan “‘Is It Because I’m a Wop?’: Queer Diaspora and Postcolonial Italy”Toshio Miyake “Italy Made in Japan: Occidentalism, Self-Orientalism, and Italianism in Contemporary Japan”Alessandro Dal Lago (Translated by Marie Orton) “Italy’s Unmentionable Racism: Reflections on the Image of Foreigners in Italian Culture”Valerie McGuire “Arcadian Histories: Italian Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean”