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Coming from Tuscany
This is a true story gathered and recreated from the diary of a woman who lived through World War II in Florence, Italy. The story begins when Hitler came to Florence in 1938 and ends when the city was liberated from Nazi Fascism at the end of the war. This book is a coming-of-age story about a young woman who falls in love while the world is collapsing around her. To make matters even more challenging, her father and brother are resisting Mussolini at every turn, putting their family's lives in jeopardy.
Passing
"Starting from this consideration, Camaiti Hostert's book turns the meaning of the social practice of passing upside down and makes it become a universal tool to redefine any social, ethnic, gender, and religious identity. Based on the Foucauldian consideration that total visibility is a "trap," the author focuses her attention on the interstices, on the spaces off and on the narratives between the lines. The emphasis is on the transitional moment, in a Gramscian sense: the fluid state flowing between the starting and ending points becomes the place of a counter-hegemony, which helps not only to rewrite history but also to change the political status quo." "Camaiti Hostert's book emphasizes hybridity and displacement; passing is a tool to redefine in our contemporary times the role of social practices as well as the personal self."--BOOK JACKET.
Passing
This book takes its title from the homonymous novel by Nella Larsen who, during the Harlem Renaissance, posed the question of what it means to be black in a racist country. The practice of passing was in fact used by African Americans to escape discrimination during the time of segregation. Nella Larsen condemns this practice, but also shows its potential, defining it as 'not entirely strange perhaps . . . but certainly not entirely friendly.' Starting from this consideration, Camaiti Hostert's book turns the meaning of the social practice of passing upside down and makes it become a universal tool to redefine any social, ethnic, gender, and religious identity. Based on the Foucauldian consi...
Screening Ethnicity
Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Remarkable for the variety and sophistication of the approaches that it brings to its subject matter, SCREENING ETHNICITY makes a powerful argument for the validity, indeed the necessity, of Italian American cinema as an object of study. By including the concepts of race, gender, and social class along with the more obvious themes of identity and ethnicity, this collection sheds new light on the careers of Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Cimino, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and the recently canonized David Chase, while calling attention to the achievements of such lesser known figures as Abel Ferrara, Stanley Tucci, Mariarosy Calleri, and Nancy Savoca. "It comes as no suprise that there is so much smart thinking and writing contained in this book" Bill Tonelli, Rolling Stone."
Trump and Mussolini
Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists compares two historic men of power and influence, Donald Trump and Benito Mussolini, to analyze the commonality of practices and mannerisms between the two. From rhetoric to body language, to their control over oral and written communication and analogous power strategies, they both possess an unusual talent for new technologies which they utilize to their advantage in unique moments in history. Mussolini lived at the beginning of mass society, Trump at the height of social media, both controversial leaders finding means to utilize these periods of time and the tools surrounding them to further th...
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Trump e moschetto
Mussolini e Trump: li divide un secolo e l’atomica, la Guerra fredda e due conflitti mondiali, un centinaio di milioni di morti e la globalizzazione. Eppure il secondo pare essere l’imitatore dei vezzi e dei vizi del primo. Analoghe le strategie che li conducono al potere: un insolito talento nel controllare e usare i mass media e la comunicazione scritta e verbale, di cui sono anche imprenditori, lo spregiudicato ricorso agli slogan e i modi di creazione del consenso. Perfino alcuni tratti della loro personalità sono simili, inclusi i rapporti con le donne. Mussolini alle soglie della società di massa, Trump a quella dei social network, di cui entrambi individuano i rispettivi punti d...
Trump non è una fiction
A partire dalla profonda trasformazione del modo di fare televisione registrato dalla fine degli anni ’90, questo saggio prende in esame le più significative serie televisive americane degli ultimi anni. Culmine del cambiamento è il tragico attentato del 2001 alle Torri Gemelle, unico episodio di aggressione del suolo americano. A una semplificazione del mondo, ridotto a scontro di civiltà, si è contrapposta una maggiore complessità dei personaggi delle fiction che acquistano uno spessore tragico mai avuto in precedenza, diventando manifestazione di contraddizioni sociali ed economiche che aprono lo spazio alla formazione di nuove identità. Con la crisi del 2008 e durante la presiden...
The Silent Duchess
Finalist for the International Man Booker Prize, winner of the Premio Campiello, short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award upon its first English-language publication in the UK, and published to critical acclaim in fourteen languages, this mesmerizing historical novel by one of Italy's premier women writers is available in the United States for the first time. The Silent Duchess is the story of Marianna Ucr a, the victim of a mysterious childhood trauma that has left her deaf and mute, trapped in a world of silence. In luminous language that conveys both the keen visual sight and the deep human insight possessed by her remarkable main character, Dacia Maraini captures the splendor and the corruption of Marianna's world and the strength of her unbreakable spirit.
