Re-Making the Italians

Gala Rebane studied Romance philology, art history and intercultural communication in Saint-Petersburg, Siena and Chemnitz. In 2010 she did her PhD at the Philosophical Faculty of the Chemnitz University of Technology. Her research interests include present-day Italian literature, popular film and cultural studies. She is a member of staff at the department of social theory and social psychology at the University of Bochum and is doing research on the new concepts of relationships and marriage in the contemporary French and Spanish cinema.

• Contents: Contemporary historical novel – Literary constructions of collective identities – Epoch-specific topoi of collective memory in Italy – Italian national history – Postcolonial historical revision – Cultural effects of globalisation and European Unification in Italy – North Italian regionalisms – Roman legacy – Present-day medievalism – Renaissance – Seicento – Risorgimento.