In corpore : bodies in post-unification Italy / edited by Loredana Polezzi and Charlotte Ross.

Other author Polezzi, Loredana.
Other author Ross, Charlotte, 1974-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2007.
Description284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Italian literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Italy--Intellectual life. --20th century.

Contents White, male, and Italian?: performing masculinity in Italian travel writing about Africa / Loredana Polezzi -- Embodied resistance, Italian anxieties, and the place of the nomad in colonial Cyrenaica / David Atkinson -- Football and fascism: foreign bodies on foreign fields / Simon Martin -- The X-ray and the relic: anthropology, bones, and bodies in modern Italy / Jeffrey David Feldman -- Bodies in tension in Giacomo Manzu's Monumento al partigiano alla Resistenza (Bergamo 1977) / Helen E. Beale -- Art, body, and the modern experience in Verga's Eva / Luisa Carrer -- Maternal shadows: Antonia Pozzi's writing of the female body / Lindsay Myers -- "Destinate a patire": contemplating the female body from perfection to pain in Carlo Cassola's Paura e tristezza / David Best -- Pasolini and the ugliness of bodies / Lorenzo Chiesa -- Absent and real bodies in Tabucchi: from dissatisfaction to resolution / Liz Wren-Owens -- "Porno-girl da fumetto": bodies and sexuality in the work of Isabella Santacroce / Charlotte Ross.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 260-279) and index.
LCCN 2007010708
ISBN9780838641644 (alk. paper)
ISBN0838641644 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ4088 .I5 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold