Italian Trans Geographies
Title | Italian Trans Geographies PDF eBook |
Author | Danila Cannamela |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2023-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1438494599 |
How does the mapping of Italian culture change when it is charted from the perspective of gender-variant people? Italian Trans Geographies tackles this question by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within the Italian peninsula and along diasporic routes. The volume adopts a cross-disciplinary approach that combines scholarly analyses with grassroots engagement and creative work and centers the voices of Italian and Italian American transpeople through autobiographies, memoirs, interviews, poetry, and visual works. The contributions include works by key Italian trans activists, including Romina Cecconi, Porpora Marcasciano, and Helena Velena, as well as critical interpretations of scholars and artists (many of whom self-identify as trans). Ultimately, these voices show how trans people have contributed to shaping Italian places and cultures while, in turn, being shaped by those places and cultures. Through its attention to geospecific sites, the book highlights blind spots in the hegemonic Anglo-American discourse about gender and overlooked intersections between LGBTQIA+ global discourse and local realities.
Italian Trans Geographies
Title | Italian Trans Geographies PDF eBook |
Author | Danila Cannamela |
Publisher | Suny Italian/American Culture |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781438494586 |
Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.
Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices
Title | Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Damiano Benvegnù |
Publisher | Vernon Press |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2022-10-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1648895301 |
What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? 'Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices' focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique, and animate the approach that Italian culture has had toward the physical environment and its ecology since late antiquity. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the essays collected in this volume explore topics including climate change, environmental justice, animal ethics, and socio-environmental degradation to provide a cogent analysis of how Italian ecological narratives fit within the current transnational debate occurring in the Environmental Humanities. The aim of 'Italy and the Ecological Imagination' is thus to explore non-anthropocentric modes of thinking and interacting with the nonhuman world. The goal is to provide accounts of how Italian historical records have potentially shaped our environmental imagination and how contemporary Italian authors are developing approaches beyond humanism in order to raise questions about the role of humans in a possible (or potentially) post-natural world. Ultimately, the volume will offer a critical map of Italian contributions to our contemporary investigation of the relationships between human and nonhuman habitats and communities.
Neotenica
Title | Neotenica PDF eBook |
Author | Joon Oluchi Lee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2020-06-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781643620206 |
A slippery novel set in the Bay Area of the early aughts, where femininity, race, and class tangle together.
The Quiet Avant‐Garde
Title | The Quiet Avant‐Garde PDF eBook |
Author | Danila Cannamela |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2019-03-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487531451 |
The blending of people and living machines is a central element in the futurist "reconstruction of the universe." However, prior to the futurist break, a group of early-twentieth-century poets, later dubbed crepuscolari (crepusculars), had already begun an attack against the dominant cultural system, using their poetry as the locus in which useless little objects clashed with the traditional poetry of human greatness and stylistic perfection. The Quiet Avant-Garde draws from a number of twenty-first-century theories – vital materialism, object-oriented ontology, and environmental humanities – as well as Bruno Latour’s criticism of modernity to illustrate how the crepuscular movement sabotaged the modern mindset and launched the counter-discourse of the Italian avant-garde by blurring the line dividing people from "things." This liminal poetics, at the crossroad of tradition, modernism, and the avant-garde, acted as the initiator of the ethical and environmental transition from a universe subjected to humans to human-thing co-agency. This book proposes a contemporary reading of Italian twentieth-century movements and offers a foothold for scholars outside Italian studies to access authors who are still unexplored in North American literature.
Trans
Title | Trans PDF eBook |
Author | Juliet Jacques |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-09-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1784781665 |
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery-a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics. Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job and launch a career as a writer, she navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Revealing, honest,humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?
She's Not There
Title | She's Not There PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Finney Boylan |
Publisher | Broadway |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | English teachers |
ISBN | 9780767914291 |
A memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor.