Table of Contents:
  • The return to the Mediterranean in contemporary western thought: old contexts, new approaches
  • Interlude: from discourses on to discourses from the Italian Mediterranean
  • Geo-philosophies of the Mediterranean: from Massimo Cacciari and Franco Cassano to Mario Alcaro and beyond
  • Sounds of southern shores: musical traditions and adaptations in the Italian Mediterranean
  • Screening the souths through southern eyes: revisiting Italy and the Mediterranean through the lenses of globalization
  • Writing the mediterraneity of the Italian south: Vincenzo Consolo, Carmine Abate, and Erri de Luca
  • The Mediterranean of migrant, post-colonial, and exile writers post-face.