AMERICA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

Massimo Bacigalupo, Pierangelo Castagneto

• Editore: Otto
• Anno: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9788887503562
• Argomento: Letteratura
• Categoria: Critica letteraria

AISNA, the American Studies Association of Italy (a member of EAAS - European Association of American Studies) chose Genoa for this major Conference because of its many and deep historical ties to America, from Columbus to the millions of emigrants who passed through its port, one of the oldest and largest of the Mediterranean. It is possible to see the Mediterranean not as a set of contrasts and incompatibilities but as a network of commerce and communication (the Genoese were great bankers). In the same way, as one speaker pointed out, Americans have often defined themselves in contrast to the Mediterranean. This conference showed that the origins of American culture are Mediterranean as much as Atlantic - Latin as well as Anglo-Saxon.This is an important realization in a world where ignorant armies still clash by night. Genoa, the host in July 2001 of a troubled Group of Eight meeting, may have made a more thoughtful if less advertised contribution to international understanding in November of the same year with this Conference on "America and the Mediterranean".

Indice dei contenuti

• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• LECTURES
• WORKSHOP ONE. American Poetry and the Mediterranean Heritage
• WORKSHOP TWO. The Mediterranean in Italian American Literature and Culture
• WORKSHOP THREE. Mediterranean Religiosity in the United States: Migrating Religions and their Encounters with Other Religions and Cultures
• WORKSHOP FOUR. The Vision of the Mediterranean in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: From the Cradle to the Zone
• WORKSHOP FIVE. American Writers and the Mediterranean: A Comparison of Viewpoints
• WORKSHOP SIX. Genoa and the United States in the Nineteenthth and Twentieth Century
• WORKSHOP SEVEN. “Sensitive as Any Woman”: Nineteenth-Century American Women and Mediterranean Masculinities
• WORKSHOP EIGHT. The Mediterranean Education of American Artists
• WORKSHOP NINE. Mediterranean Mediations: Transatlantic Imaginary and Gender Identity
• WORKSHOP TEN. The Sea and Revolution: The Mediterranean, the Early Republican Age, and U.S. Culture
• WORKSHOP ELEVEN. U.S. Middle Eastern Policy in the Twentieth Century: Aspects and Problems
• WORKSHOP TWELVE. “Wars They Have Seen”: Americans in Mediterranean Conflicts
• AFTERWORD
• AUTHOR INDEX