In corpore
Subtitle: bodies in post-unification Italy edited by
By: Loredana Polezzi and Charlotte Ross.
Contributors: Polezzi, Loredana.; Ross, Charlotte, 1974-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838641644
Subjects: Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: White, male and Italian?: performing masculinity in Italian travel writing about Africa /  Loredana Polezzi; title: Embodied resistance, Italian anxieties, and the place of the nomad in colonial Cyrenaica / David Atkinson; title: Football and fascism: foreign bodies on foreign fields / Simon Martin; title: The X-ray and the relic: anthropology, bones, and bodies in modern Italy / Jeffrey David Feldman; title: Bodies in tension in Giacomo Manzu's Monumento al partigiano alla Resistenza (Bergamo 1977) / Helen E. Beale; title: Art, body, and the modern experience in Verga's Eva / Luisa Carrer; title: Maternal shadows: Antonia Pozzi's writing of the female body / Lindsay Myers; title: Destinate a patire: contemplating the female body from perfection to pain in Carlo Cassola's Paura e tristezza / David Best; title: Pasolini and the ugliness of bodies / Lorenzo Chiesa; title: Absent and real Bodies in Tabucchi: from dissatisfaction to resolution / Liz Wren-Owens; title: Porno-girl da fumetto: bodies and sexuality in the work of Isabella Santacroce / Charlotte Ross.