Lynn Mastellotto

Transnational Writing on Italy (eBook, ePUB)

Self and Place in Contemporary Relocation Narratives

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on three transnational writers in Italy and their respective relocation trilogies - Frances Mayes, Annie Hawes, and Tim Parks - the study examines the process of identity reconstruction through sustained engagement with foreign place and place-based practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040332269
• Artikelnr.: 73302183

Autorenporträt

Lynn Mastellotto is Assistant Professor of English Language, Linguistics and Translation at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. Her research focuses on identity in narrative discourse, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in cultural theory, multimodal communication, and intermediality in translation. Informed by an interdisciplinary approach that draws on linguistics, cultural studies, and literary criticism, her research explores how ideas and words cross geographical, linguistic, cultural, disciplinary and code boundaries.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.................................................................................
Introduction
..........................................................................................
Chapter 1 - Relocation Narratives Made in Italy
.............................
Emplacement
abroad..........................................................................
Locating relocation
writing................................................................
The subjective
quest...........................................................................
Chapter 2 - Transnational Lifestyles in the Late Twentieth Century
..................................................................................................
Lifestyle
migration.............................................................................
The rural
idyll.....................................................................................
Colonial and cosmopolitan
orientations.............................................
Chapter 3 - Frances Mayes and the Tuscan Dream
....................................
Bramasole - a ruin with a
view..........................................................
Tuscan foodways and
homemaking...................................................
Timeless Tuscans and
Tuscany..........................................................
Chapter 4 - Annie Hawes on Liguria
.................................................
A tourist's
gaze...................................................................................
Deep immersion in everyday
life.......................................................
Ligurians, Italians, and
Others..................................................................
Chapter 5 - Tim Parks on Verona and Beyond................................
Italian
neighbours...............................................................................
Italian
lessons.....................................................................................
Community and conviviality
..............................................................
Conclusion
.............................................................................................
References...............................................................................................
Index.......................................................................................................