Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds: New Narratives from Italian Cultures to Global Citizenship ISBN-13: 9781501378935

ISBN-13: 9781501378935

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Biancofiore, Angela

Details: About the Author

Angela Biancofiore is Professor of Italian Studies at Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier, France. She has published several books and articles on Italian studies and Mediterranean literature and arts, including: Benvenuto Cellini artiste-écrivain : lhomme à lœuvre (1998); Pasolini, Palermo, Palumbo (2003), awarded with the 2006 international “G. Sormani” prize; and Soyons le changement… Nouvelles tendances dans la littérature italienne contemporaine. Une anthologie (2016). She founded and runs the web journal Notos. Espaces de la création: arts, écritures, utopies (http://notos.numerev.com/), and she is a member of LLACS (Langues Littératures Arts et Cultures des Suds), a research center on Mediterranean studies at Montpellier University.

Clément Barniaudy is Associate Professor of Geography at University of Montpellier, France, and a member of the research center LIRDEF (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de recherche en Didactique, Education et Formation). His teaching and research interests lie in eco-cultural studies, environmental humanities and geographical education. He is responsible for the teacher training in the field of history and geography at the Faculty of Education in Montpellier. He is co-founder of the international center “Theory and practice of caring” at Montpellier (https://tepcare.hypotheses.org/).

His PhD (“To live with the wind in the North Western Mediterranean area”) led him to explore how our practices can be embodied in a living and inhabited environment. More recently, he continues this work by focusing on the theories and practices of care in relation with land use planning and with transformative education.

Product Description

This book invites readers to think of Mediterranean cultures as interconnected worlds, seen in light of how they evolve, disappear, are reborn and perpetually transform. This perspective intends to build bridges between the Northern and Southern coasts of the sea in order to broaden and deepen our understanding of current evolutions in Mediterranean worlds, at the cultural, literary, artistic and geopolitical levels. As Paul Valéry suggested, we can consider this plural space from the perspective of the intense cultural, economic and human exchanges which have always characterized the Mare Nostrum. We can also consider Mediterranean worlds within an open enactive process, deeply exploring their evolution between nature and culture, examining the natural environment and the transforming relationships between humans and non-humans.

The writers and researchers in Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds call for a dialog between the two coasts in order to connect what has been broken. In this volume, they highlight an intercultural and creolized conscience, traversing the Mediterranean worlds – including Italian, French and Tunisian cultures, but also migrations from, to and within the region – and transcending any idea of communitarian withdrawal. These essays express the urgent need to shift from an understanding of migration as suffering to the notion that mobility is an unalienable right, building foundations for a new idea of global citizenship.

Review

“The Mediterranean has always been the sea of all possibilities and all dramas. This volume is presented as a ship navigating the waters of the Mediterranean, offering stopovers along the coasts most of which are located in France, Tunisia and above all in Italy, which is at the epicenter of this re-storying of Mediterranean worlds. During this navigation, we learn more about the planet, of which this sea – at the crossroads of three continents – is one of the most accomplished syntheses, and about the dimensions of our humanity. A great book, definitely.” ―Bertrand Westphal, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Limoges, France, and co-editor of Francophone Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020)

“The Mediterraneanis not only a place on maps. It is a category, indicating crossin

Release Date: 07-10-2021

Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English

Number Of Pages: 232