In Corpore: Bodies in Post-unification ItalyLoredana Polezzi, Charlotte Ross Collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies in contemporary Italian cultural production, and in the light of developments in thinking about bodies and their locations within cultures. This book includes essays that assume a plurality of conceptions of culture and of the body. |
Contents
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Performing Masculinity in Italian Travel Writing about Africa | 29 |
Embodied Resistance Italian Anxieties and the Place of the Nomad in Colonial Cyrenaica | 56 |
Foreign Bodies on Foreign Fields | 80 |
Anthropology Bones and Bodies in Modern Italy | 107 |
Bodies in Tension in Giacomo Manzus Monumento al partigiano alia Resistenza Bergamo 1977 | 127 |
Art Body and the Modern Experience in Vergas Eva | 155 |
Antonia Pozzis Writing of the Female Body | 173 |
Contemplating the Female Body from Perfection to Pain in Carlo Cassolas Paura e tristezza | 189 |
Pasolini and the Ugliness of Bodies | 208 |
From Dissatisfaction to Resolution | 228 |
Bodies and Sexuality in the Work of Isabella Santacroce | 242 |
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Notes on Contributors | 280 |
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