The Poetics of the Margins

Rossella M. Riccobono is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests range from twentieth-century poetry and narrative to contemporary Italian cinema. She has published on Cesare Pavese, Eugenio Montale and film director Mario Martone. She is currently completing a monograph on Eugenio Montale and researching a new volume dedicated exclusively to the poetry of Cesare Pavese.

Contents: Rossella Riccobono: Introduction - Ubaldo Riccobono: 'Isle-solitudes' and European Archaeologies in Leonardo Sciascia - Marina Spunta: Escaping the World and Returning to the 'Province' in Claudio Piersanti's Fiction - Rossella Riccobono: Pier Vittorio Tondelli between Europe and Emilia: Centre and Margins in Camere separate - Margherita Sprio: Migrant Translations: Matarazzo Remembered - Eleni Papargyriou: Centralising the Marginal, Marginalising the Central: Panos Karnezis's Prose Fiction - Kate Roy: Re-membering Hetereogeneous Histories: How the Writing of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Leïla Sebbar Reinscribes the Other in a 'European' Past - Cristina Johnston: Reshaping Identities: Marseille and the Mediterranean Onscreen - Claudia Nocentini: Laura Pariani and the Value of Experience - Raquel Ribeiro: Marginal, Nomadic and Stateless: Pessoa, Musil and Kafka in the Works of Maria Gabriela Llansol.