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xvii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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 socioenvironmental degradation to provide a cogent analysis of how Italian ecological narratives fit within the current transnational debate occurring in the environmental humanities.
Part 1. Theories. Chapter 1: Anima mundi and metensomatosis in Giordano Bruno: religion, ethics, and eco-theology / Massimo Lollini -- Chapter 2: Primo Levi's chewing gum: a semantics of resistance for the Anthropocene / Serenella Iovino -- Chapter 3: Italian feminism of sexual difference: a different ecofeminist thought / Danila Cannamela -- Chapter 4: Film ecophilosophy and the question of the animal: Jacques Derrida's cat and Matteo Garrone's dogs / Alberto Baracco -- Chapter 5: Walking: ecocritical encounters with storied matter / Paolo Saporito -- Part 2. Practices. Chapter 6: Cravasco: an example of slow violence / Serena Ferrando -- Chapter 7: Giuseppe Penone's Earth Beings / Federico Luisetti -- Chapter 8: Abused bodies, abused landscapes: narratives of exploitation and resistance across the Mediterranean / Jessica Sciubba -- Chapter 9: Lyrical intensity and narrative function: the animal gaze in Pietro Marcello's Bella e Perduta / Achille Castaldo -- Chapter 10: Investigating the extinction crime scene: Guido Morselli's eco-political manifesto and the forensic gaze of the Anthropocene.
edited by Damiano Benvegnù, Matteo Gilebbi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.