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Áine O’Healy. Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame

Contributor(s): Daniele Laudadio

Paola Breda and Marino Toppan. Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers: A Century of Italian Immigration to Canada: Immigrants Who Made it and Those Who Perished Trying

Contributor(s): Matteo Brera

Nota della direttrice

Contributor(s): Sandra Parmegiani

Changing the Sex of Cats: Considerations on Tale Type ATU 545, “The Cat as Helper, or, Puss in Boots” between Italy and France

Contributor(s): Cristina Mazzoni

When Charles Perrault adapted his French “Puss in Boots” from earlier Italian versions by Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, he made his feline protagonist a male. The cat, however, was grammatically gendered as feminine in the Italian versions, and several critics have...

Sorciers et philosophes : la duplicité des Gitans dans le théâtre italien de la Renaissance

Contributor(s): Matteo Leta

This article examines the depiction of Gypsies in sixteenth-century Italian theatre. By staging Gypsies, dramatists consciously and unconsciously reflected contemporary attitudes and biases towards this itinerant foreign population. They also exposed their own insecurities : while portraying...

Destouches e Goldoni tra nobildonne, arcadi e liberi muratori. Percorsi della riforma del teatro comico italiano del Settecento

Contributor(s): Gianni Cicali

Fisionomia di una raccolta poetica dimenticata: L’alba ai vetri di Giorgio Bassani (1963)

Contributor(s): Massimo Colella

Mutiny in the House: Domestic Rebellion in Fausta Cialente’s Natalia

Contributor(s): Laura A. Salsini

The cult of domesticity positions women into a state of subservience while reinforcing gendered roles. The ideology was propagated in post-Unification Italy by Catholic doctrine as well as Fascist propaganda and practices that consigned women to the roles of wives and mothers. The physical site...

Post-Unification Gender Dissonances and Ideological Counter-Discourse in Capuana’s Rassegnazione

Contributor(s): Brian Zuccala

The article offers a (re)reading of Capuana’s often neglected novel Rassegnazione (1907), which revolves around the notion of gender-based violence as a central thematic trope. My reading illustrates Capuana’s deployment of the theme of femminicidio as a narrative tool through which to develop a...

Negotiations of a Woman’s Self: Liminal Experiences and Dialogic Reconsiderations in Anna Banti’s Un grido lacerante

Contributor(s): Torunn Haaland

This article focuses on the authorial figure in Anna Banti’s last work, Un grido lacerante. An introspective portrait of an aging author whose life and career have been shaped by remorse over a lost vocation, the novel has traditionally been interpreted as an expression of the autobiographical...

Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati. Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film

Contributor(s): Elisabetta Carraro

Piero Garofalo, Elizabeth Leake and Dana Renga. Internal exile in Fascist Italy. History and representation of confino

Contributor(s): Giuseppe Tosi

Danielle Hipkins. Italy’s Other Women: Gender and Prostitution in Italian Cinema (1940–1965)

Contributor(s): Paolo Frascà

Catherine Ramsey-Portolano. Performing Bodies. Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860–1920)

Contributor(s): Serena Ferrando

Giovanna Miceli Jeffries. Bitter Trades: A Memoir

Contributor(s): Carla Cornette

Paula M. Salvio. The Story-Takers. Public Pedagogy, Transitional Justice, and Italy’s Non-Violent Protest against the Mafia

Contributor(s): Viktor Berberi