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Record Nr.

UNINA9910627282703321

Autore

Caserta Silvia

Titolo

Narratives of Mediterranean Spaces : Literature and Art across Land and Sea / / by Silvia Caserta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031077739

9783031077722

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 pages)

Collana

Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, , 2634-5188

Disciplina

892.709

809.93321822

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Space

Culture

Literature

Ecocriticism

World history

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Comparative Literature

Space and Place in Culture

World Literature

World History, Global and Transnational History

Sociology of Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. What (is the) Mediterranean -- Chapter 2. Narratives of the Sea Contemporary Migration across the Mediterranean -- Chapter 3. Narratives of Land and Sea. The Island, the Boat, and the Lighthouse -- Chapter 4. Narratives of the Desert. Reconfiguring Movement Across the Sahara -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Re-inventing the Odyssey.

Sommario/riassunto

Narratives of Mediterranean Space: Literature and Art across Land and Sea presents a comparative analysis of contemporary literary and visual narratives of movement and migration produced in Italian, Arabic and



French. It analyzes how these works create a dialogue across the Mediterranean Sea. By paying attention to the multiple ways in which the Mediterranean is being narrated by contemporary writers and artists, Silvia Caserta aims to propose a reconceptualization of the Mediterranean as a polyphonic space of movement and resistance. The Mediterranean space that emerges from this study is a space that, by virtue of the instability and porosity of its geographical and cultural borders, is able to overcome normative dichotomies between north and south, east and west, local and global. This book proposes the Mediterranean is a fruitful area from which to investigate the wider contradictions of the contemporary global world while avoiding the traps of “Mediterraneanism”. For this reason, the book highlights the contradictions and dissonances that emerge from reading Mediterranean works, opening up multiple perspectives on the Sea and on the different lands that surround it. Silvia Caserta is Associate Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. Her research focuses on contemporary Italian literature and culture, approached within the broader cultural and geographical framework of the Mediterranean. .