Beschreibung
How have events such as military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq or the protests in Tahrir Square been represented by writers, journalists and intellectuals in Italy? This study examines the arguments used in defining Italy’s relationship with Islam and with the Islamic world, in the period from 9/11 to the Arab Spring.
Autorenportrait
Charles Burdett is Professor of Italian at the University of Bristol. The principal area of his research is the representation of intercultural contact in modern Italian literature and culture. He has written on literary culture in the 1920s and 1930s, travel and travel writing in Italy under Fascism, the history of Italian expansionism and the memory of colonialism. He is currently working on the AHRC-funded project «Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures».
Rezension
«Charles Burdett’s succinct yet exhaustive analysis of the relationship between Italy, Islam, and the Islamic world focuses on a corpus of texts that have played a seminal
role in shaping the cultural debate in Italy from 9/11 to the Arab Spring, revealing a wide intellectual breadth in his study.»
(Marino Forlino, Modern Language Review, 113.1, 2018)
Inhalt
Contents: 9/11: The Islamic World as Other in Oriana Fallaci’s «Trilogy» – The War on Terror: Journeys of Writers and Journalists through Iraq and Afghanistan – Representations of Islamic Communities in Italy – Literary Representations of Islam and Italy – Voices of Tahrir Square: Representations of Egypt and the Arab Uprisings.
