Novecento and the Contemporary Period Paola Cori, University of Birmingham, and Alex Standen, University of Birmingham

1. Narrative and Theatre General. Angela Borghesi, Genealogie: Saggisti e interpreti del Novecento, Macerata, Quodlibet, 257 pp., reflects upon contemporary It. lit. via a discussion of some of its foremost critics. Autori, lettori e mercato nella modernità letteraria, ed. Ilaria Crotti et al., Pisa, ETS, 715 pp., considers the reading public and changes in the author-reader relationship. Patrizia Zambon, Scrittrici: scrittori. Saggi di letteratura contemporanea, Padua, Il poligrafo, 243 pp., focuses on late 18th- and early 19th-c. It. lit., reading some of its more ‘canonical’ works alongside those by women writers, emphasizing reciprocity and dialogue between the two. Andrea Gialloreto, L’esilio e l’attesa: Scritture del dispatrio da Fausta Cialente a Luigi Meneghello, Lanciano, Rocco Carabba, 320 pp., considers the post-war author and intellectual, proposing exile as a site not only of alienation, but of autonomy, independence and a new freedom. Elizabeth Leake, After Words: Suicide and Authorship in Twentieth-Century Italy, Toronto U.P, 250 pp, explores the way the suicide of an author influences the way his or her work, life and thought are interpreted, and discusses, among others, the cases of Guido Morselli, Giuseppe Rensi, Amelia Rosselli and Pavese. Italies, 15, ‘L’envers du Risorgimento. Représentations de l’anti-Risorgimento de 1815 à nos jours’, is the outcome of a conference held in March 2010 at the Centre Aixois d’Études Romanes for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. It presents a variety of readings of the Risorgimento from the first accounts of the Garibaldines to 21st-c. novelists and incl. essays on Fo by B. Urbani (173–201), Banti by Y. Gouchan (203–23), Bianciardi by S. Magni (225–42), Roberto Roversi by A. Marignani (243–63), Tabucchi by P. Abbrugiati (265–78), and Consolo by W. Geerts (279–91). Giovanni Tesio, *Novecento in prosa: da Pirandello a Busi, Vercelli, Mercurio, 362 pp. Giorgio Cavallini, *Nuovi saggi letterari: da Dante a Salgari, a La Capria e a Parise e altri autori del Novecento e degli anni duemila, Genoa, Brigati, 133 pp. Paolo Puppa, Racconti del palcoscenico: dal Rinascimento a Gadda, Naples, Liguori, 180 pp., considers the relationships between prose and theatre in a number of Novecento authors, incl. Pasolini, Primo Levi and De Filippo. Alberto Zava, *La maschera e la penna: saggi di letteratura italiana contemporanea tra umorismo, narrativa e giornalismo, Bologna, I libri di Emil, 112 pp. *Finzione cronaca realtà: scambi, intrecci e prospettive nella narrativa italiana contemporanea, ed. Hanna Serkowska, Massa, Transeuropa, 458 pp. Emanuele Occhipinti, Travelling In and Out of Italy: 19th and 20th- Century Notebooks, Letters and Essays, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars, 116 pp., considers the travel writings of Pirandello, Svevo and Ortese and also offers a detailed reading of It. writers’ relationships with America. Nicola Turi, Declinazioni del canone americano in Italia tra gli anni Quaranta e Sessanta, Rome, Bulzoni, 227 pp., considers the presence of American lit. in It. from the post-war years to the 1960s and its effect on It. literary production. *L’esperienza del viaggio nella letteratura italiana del Novecento, ed. francesca Romana Andreotti et al., Pisa, Serra, 75 pp. *Insularità: immagini e rappresentazioni nella narrativa sarda del Novecento, ed. Ilaria Crotti, Rome, Bulzoni, 299 pp. Silvia Zangrandi, *Cose dell’altro mondo: percorsi nella letteratura fantastica italiana del Novecento, Bologna, Archetipo, 227 pp. 246 Italian Studies

Migration and Postcolonial Literature. Two volumes, Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World, ed. Loretta Baldassar and Donna R. Gabaccia, Fordham U.P., 235 pp., and The Cultures of Italian Migration: Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives, ed. Graziella Parati and Anthony Julian Tamburri, Madison, Fairleigh Dickinson U.P., 137 pp., contain, amongst writings of a more sociological/anthropological nature, contributions on the narration of migratory experiences. G. Benvenuti, ‘Raccontare la colonia. Sul “romanzo storico” italiano contemporaneo’, Poetiche, 2:425–45, examines the representation of It.’s colonial past in two recent novels by Carlo Lucarelli and Gabriella Ghermandi. M. Orton, ‘Telling Uneasiness: Second Generation Migrant Writers in Italy and the Failure of Multiculturalism’, ISt, 66.3:393–412, analyses works by two second-generation migrant writers, Igiaba Scego and Randa Ghazy, positing that they expose the problematic implementation of It.’s multicultural practices and policies. Gianni Paoletti, *Vite ritrovate: emigrazione e letteratura italiana di Otto e Novecento, Foligno, Editoriale umbra, 299 pp. Gabriele Proglio, *Memorie oltre confine. La letteratura postcoloniale italiana in prospettiva storica, pref. Luisa Passerini, Verona, Ombre corte, 174 pp. Women’s Writing. Italian Women and Autobiography: Ideology, Discourse and Identity in Female Life Narratives from Fascism to the Present, ed. Ioana Raluca Larco and Fabiana Cecchini, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars, 172 pp., is a collection of papers given on female autobiography, focusing in particular on their intersections with ideology, and considering, among others, works by Anna Banti and Clara Sereni. A. Angelone, ‘On the Threshold of Modernity: Invernizio, Negri and the Portinaia’, ISt, 66.3:318–32, is a study of the portinaia in two early 20th-c. works, arguing that she is seen as a potential threat to male subjectivity. U. fanning, ‘Touching on Taboos: Imagining and Reconceptualizing Motherhood in Some Post- ’68 Autobiographical Narratives by Women’, ModLit, 4:49–58, considers the theme of motherhood in works by Lidia Ravera and Lalla Romano. Multiple Authors. B. Haddock, ‘The Crisis of Ideology in Italy: Eco, Vattimo and the Erosion of Critical Space’, Italianist, 31.1:14–24, focuses on E. and V. as cultural critics and public intellectuals, and in particular on the relation of practice to theory. A. Giarrettino, ‘Scrittori siciliani a Milano (Verga, Vittorini, Consolo)’, BI, 2:315–38, considers exile in the works of the three authors who all migrated from Sicily to Milan, contrasting their representations of city and island. Papini, Vailati e la ‘Cultura dell’anima’: Atti dei convegni di studio, Chieti, maggio 2009 e gennaio 2010, ed. M. Del Castello and G. A. Lucchetta, Lanciano, Carabba, 362 pp., is a collection of papers in celebration of the centenary of Giovanni Papini and Giovanni Vailati’s series Cultura dell’anima, which demonstrate its significance in It. cultural and philosophical thought. E. Ajello, ‘Elogio del personaggio strambo. Per Gianni Celati ed Ermanno Cavazzoni’, StN, 81:185–98, examines the figure of ‘lo strambo’, suggesting that, for both authors, the character represents the triumph of anti-intellectualism and common sense. V. Papetti, ‘Vite parallele ma divergenti di due traduttori: Fenoglio e Manganelli’, Autografo, 45:67–78, focuses on the similarities in F. and M.’s lives and careers, centring on their connection to Anglophone culture and their experiences as translators. Noemi Paolini Giachery, Le ragioni dell’ovvio: Rileggendo Svevo, Pascoli, Ungaretti, Montale, Rome, EdiLet, 131 pp., offers a reconsideration of the four authors, in the light of existing criticism. Alessandro Trocino, Popstar della cultura: la resistibile ascesa di Roberto Saviano, Giovanni Allevi, Carlo Petrini, Beppe Grillo, Mauro Corona e Andrea Camilleri, Rome, Fazi, 219 pp., considers the intellectual and cultural significance of these figures to contemporary It. society. Pietro Gibellini, Verga, Pirandello e altri siciliani, Lecce, Milella, 215 pp., explores the relationship that authors such as V. and P. have with their native land, but also considers authors from the mainland whose works were enriched by their contact with the island. Bruno Pischedda,