{"product_id":"italian-literature-in-the-nuclear-age-a-poetics-of-the-bystander-hardcover","title":"Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Anna Mariani\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eItalian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander\u003c\/em\u003e explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. Host to hundreds of American atomic weapons while lacking a nuclear arsenal of its own, Italy's status was an ambiguous one: that of an unwilling--and in many ways passive--accomplice. Inspired by Seamus Heaney's dictum that \"there is no such thing as innocent by-standing,\" the book frames Italy's fraught mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to rethink the role of the sidelined intellectual in the face of mass extinction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eItalian Literature in the Nuclear Age\u003c\/em\u003e includes discrete chapters on the major Italian intellectuals of the time: Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Leonardo Sciascia. Conscious of their own political marginalization, these authors address the atomic question through a wide range of experimental forms, approaching the nearly unthinkable theme in allusive and oblique ways. Often dismissed as disengaged, inconsistent, or merely playful, these works demand instead a political reading capable of recognizing their confrontation with the paradoxes of the nuclear age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaria Anna Mariani, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor of Modern Italian Literature, University of Chicago\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaria Anna Mariani is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Chicago. She is the author of \u003cem\u003ePrimo Levi e Anna Frank. Tra testimonianza e letteratura\u003c\/em\u003e (Carocci, 2018) and \u003cem\u003eSull'autobiografia contemporanea. Nathalie Sarraute, Elias Canetti, Alice Munro, Primo Levi\u003c\/em\u003e (Carocci, 2012).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8.77 x 5.81 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47473224777906,"sku":"9780192868855","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3fb7fe9b714f428a692d54005b7f451a.webp?v=1779124656","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/italian-literature-in-the-nuclear-age-a-poetics-of-the-bystander-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}