Overview
This volume explores Italian science fiction from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, covering literary texts, films, music and visual works by figures as diverse as Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Peter Kolosimo, Primo Levi, Antonio Margheriti, Gilda Musa and Roberto Vacca. It broadens the horizons of both Italian studies and the environmental humanities by addressing a long-neglected genre, and expands our understanding of relations between the ecological, the imaginary and the sociopolitical. The chapters draw on a variety of methodological frameworks, including animal studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, eco-media studies, energy humanities and posthumanism. The reader will gain insights into consequential topics such as anthropocentrism/speciesism, ecomodernist thought, environmental justice struggles at the planetary and regional level, non-human and new materialist ontologies, utopian/dystopian philosophies and prospects for transitioning beyond the crisis of petro-modernity through the construction of post-depletion futures. Open Access versions of the introduction and six of the book chapters are available on the Liverpool University Press website.
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Author: Daniel A. Finch-Race , Emiliano Guaraldo , Marco Malvestio
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Volume: 80
ISBN: 9781802078701
ISBN 10: 1802078703
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 12 December 2023
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Greening Italian Science Fiction – New Approaches to a Long-Lasting Genre Daniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, Marco Malvestio Section I: Science in the Anthropocene Herbert Pagani’s Mégalopolis: A Rock Opera between Dystopian Science Fiction and Ecological Utopia Eleonora Lima Cultural and Ecological Extinction in Primo Levi’s Science-Fiction Michele Maiolani What Kind of Science? Italian Science Fiction Writers against the Economic Boom Daniele Comberiati Section II: Visions of Extinction Ecofeminist Care at the End of the World: Collaborative Survival in Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s L’isola delle Madri Raffaella Baccolini and Chiara Xausa Barbarism, Animalization, and the End of the World: Fantasies of Regression and Mutation in Italian Science Fiction Simona Micali A Post-Apocalyptic Garden of Eden. Marco Ferreri’s Il Seme dell’Uomo Emiliano Guaraldo Section III: Urban Landscapes and Industrial Capitalism in a Rapidly Changing Country Industrial Wonders and Pitfalls in Émile Souvestre’s Le Monde tel qu’il sera en l’an 3000 (1846) and Agostino della Sala Spada’s Nel 2073! (1874) Daniel A. Finch-Race Spaceships in the Anthropocene: Peter Kolosimo and the End of (Our) Times Marco Malvestio Uncanny Spaces in Inhuman Times: The Art of Giacomo Costa Matteo Gilebbi Against Eco-Fascism: Space and Place in Tullio Avoledo’s Furland Florian Mussgnug Section IV: Posthuman, More-than-Human, and Interspecies Relations Green Traces: Vegetal Imagination in Italian Science Fiction from Gilda Musa to Solarpunk Enrico Cesaretti Bonsai Children, Enchanted Gardens: Nature as Artifice in Paolo Zanotti’s Dystopian Fairy Tale Valentina Fulginiti ‘All We Need is Love’?: Eros, Agape, and Koinonia in the Time of Mass Extinction Danila Cannamela Eco-Horror: Human-Animal Encounters in Italian Science-Fiction Films Robert A. Rushing Solarpunk, or rather Solartivismo: An Interview with Francesco Verso Arielle Saiber
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‘This collection of essays takes the reader to the uncanny territory of Italian science fiction, a world animated by apocalyptic fantasies and ecological dystopias, consumerist annihilations and nonhuman socialities. In an epoch of multiple planetary crises, this revelatory book is a must-read for any archaeologist of the present.’ Federico Luisetti, University of St. Gallen ‘If Italian culture has an ecological unconscious, that unconscious is embodied in science fiction. Rarely do so many creative motifs converge in the imagination of our species and the planet within a single literary genre: there are the anxieties of the automaton as an other-than-human, encounters with our spatio-temporal otherness, technological apocalypses, dilemmas of hybridity with real and imaginary life forms, and the desires of new socio-energetic utopias. With a perspective that encompasses cinema, art, and literature, ranging from great classics like Buzzati, Levi, Calvino, and Scerbanenco to “alien archaeologies” and solarpunk, Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities retrieves this unconscious and inaugurates the entrance of Italian science fiction into the international eco-literary canon. A futuristic and pioneering book that rightfully joins the essential references of environmental humanities studies.’ Serenella Iovino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Author Information
Daniel A. Finch-Race is an Assistant Professor in Geography in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. Emiliano Guaraldo is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the New Institute Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Marco Malvestio is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padua.
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