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Michael Subialka started the topic Call for Submissions, PSA Vol 36 (2024) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the next volume (36) of PSA, the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Pirandello Society of America (https://www.pirandellosociety.org/). This is an open topic issue – any work on or relating to Luigi Pirandello is invited. The volume will be published in 2024…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: CFP ChLA International Committee Focus Panel to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe International Committee of the Children’s Literature Association has chosen the theme “Memories” for its focus panel at the 2024 conference and invites paper proposals. Please see attachment for details
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Deicide and the Drama of the Holocaust: Gian Paolo Callegari’s Cristo ha ucciso (1948) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoGian Paolo Callegari’s prize-winning 1948 play, Cristo ha ucciso, marks an overlooked milestone in Italy’s response to the Holocaust. Among the earliest Italian creative works to confront the genocide of the European Jews, Callegari’s play challenged the legacies of anti-Semitism in European culture. Yet it also concealed the troubling histo…[Read more]
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Letizia Modena started the topic Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCfp MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee “Pandemics & Academics: gendered and disciplinary impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic”
How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted scholarly pursuits in and around Italian Studies, especially across gender positions and discipl…[Read more]
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Letizia Modena started the topic Italo Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCFP per MLA 20235–8 January, San Francisco, CA.On behalf of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian Forum Executive Committee Calvino@100: An Unfolding Legacy
A century after his birth, Italo Calvino still enjoys an international following that includes novelists, artists, literary scholars, architects, even mathematicians and en…[Read more]
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Maria Truglio uploaded the file: Call for Poposals: Comparative Literature Studies to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for 500-word article proposals for a special issue of the ‘Comparative Literature Studies’ entitled “Redesigning Modernities.’ The issue seeks studies that identify and explore new paradigms for understanding “modernity”—in all its unevenness and inequities— across the globe, and constructing new cartographies of cultural creation and circulation.
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Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoTaking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.
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Charles L. Leavitt IV deposited Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoIn the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the United States. Drawing on the work of authors including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini, this essay argues that p…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI/IASA @ LUCCA Conference CfP in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS AATI/IASA JOINT CONFERENCELucca, IT 2022 The first joint international conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) and the Italian American Studies Association (IASA) will take place from May 25-29, 2022 at La Fondazione Campus in Lucca, Italy. In keeping with the missions of the AATI/IASA, th…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Gestí, Joaquim (ed.) (2004). «Dino Buzzati Seixanta contes» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReview of Catalan translation of Dino Buzzati
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Levi, Primo (2005). «A una hora incierta» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReveiw of Spanish translation of Primo Levi, “Ad ora incerta”
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Alcuni appunti sul condizionale in italiano in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe aim of this article is that of clarifying those issues of the analysis of the conditional structures in Italian which are more difficult to pin down. Once their «double nature»
(temporal and modal) is established, attention is switched to the most conflicting aspects shown by the conditional structures («mixed» hypothetical periods, rep…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Campana, Dino (1998). «Cantos órficos y otros poemas» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReview of Spanish translation of Canti Orfici by Dino Campana
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Helga Schneider: la ferita aperta della scrittura in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIn this interview, granted by Helga Schneider in November 2002, the ideas that predominante in all her novels are present, from the impossibility of forgiveness to the refusal of
hatred. Schneider shows the horrors of Nazism from within and interprets Evil from the viewpoint of its trivial daily expressions, illuminating the shady areas hidden by…[Read more] -
Francesco Ardolino deposited Alemany, Josep (ed.) (2013). Luigi Pirandello «L’humorisme» in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoReview of the Catalan translation of “L’umorismo”
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Multilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoMultilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context
MLA Call: This session explores the use of language–Italian, Italian dialects, regionalism, Italiese, or even foreign languages–within the context of Italian American e/o Italian diasporic studies. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from literary to visual and performative…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Challenging the (Italian) American Canon: Past to Present in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWhat makes a canon? More importantly, what is the confines, political and literary, faced by installing a canon? By destroying the canon as scholars, do we end up doing more good than bad? What is the future of ethnic writers when considering the canon?
Italian American studies scholar Mary Jo Bona claims that “many factors contributed to the e…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic MLA Working Group in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoMLA Working Group
Transgenerational Trauma in Italian-American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts
From the shellshock victims of the First World War to adopting the term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma studies cover a wide-ranging area, from psychiatry to transgenerational trauma. In The Traumatic Imagination, Eugene Arva…[Read more] -
Alan J. Gravano started the topic LLC Italian American 1998-2023 (Twenty-fifth Anniversary) in the discussion
LLC Italian American on MLA Commons 5 years agoAfter the meeting today, I thought about anniversaries. The first LLC IA was San Francisco in 1998. Thus, 2023 will be the 25th anniversary of the LLC.
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