Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing (eBook)

Stefania Lucamante is professor of Italian at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Introduction, Stefania LucamanteChapter 1: Daniele Morante: “Elsa Morante’s Correspondence: A New Source for the Artist’s Biography”Chapter 2: Giuliana Zagra: “Writing: A Lifelong Affair. Notes from the Elsa Morante Archives”Part One: New Approaches to Morante’s OeuvreChapter 3: Francesco Chillemi: “In the Realm of the Lie: The Implosion of Thought and the Monsters of Reason in Menzogna e Sortilegio”Chapter 4: Saskia Ziolkowski: “Morante and Kafka: The Gothic Walking Dead and Talking Animals”Chapter 5: Sarah Carey: “Elsa Morante: Envisioning History”Chapter 6: Sharon Wood: “Excursus as Narrative Technique in La Storia”Chapter 7: Stefania Lucamante: “‘The World Must Be the Writer’s Concern’: Elsa Morante’s Visions of History”Chapter 8: Lorenzo Salvagni: “In Marguerite Caetani’s Literary Salon: a Study of Elsa Morante’s Contributions to Botteghe Oscure”Part Two: Theater, Visual Arts and CinemaChapter 9: Gabrielle Orsi: “Lo Scialle Andaluso: The Intimate Theater of Elsa Morante”Chapter 10: Gandolfo Cascio: “Elsa Morante’s Pictorial References and Ekphrasis in Alibi: from Vittore Carpaccio to Silvestro Lega”Chapter 11: Claude Cazalé Bérard: “Senza i conforti della religione: An Interrupted Path between Cinema and Poetic Creation”Chapter 12: Hanna Serkowska: “Arturo in the World of the ‘Pharisee Fathers’: The Cinematic Adaptation of Arturo’s Island”Chapter 13: Thomas Harrison: “No Novel is an Island: Damiano Damiani’s L’isola di Arturo”Chapter 14: Giovanna De Luca: “The Myth of Childhood: Luigi Comencini’s Adaptation of La Storia”Chapter 15: Gaetana Marrone: “Staging a Writer’s Journey: Elsa Morante by Francesca Comencini”Part Three: Queering Morante: Bodies that Matter from Diario 1938 to AracoeliChapter 16: Katrin Wehling-Giorgi: “Tuo scandalo tuo splendore”: The Split Mother in Morante’s Works from Diario 1938 to AracoeliChapter 17: Manuele Gragnolati: “Differently Queer: Sexuality and Aesthetics in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio and Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli”Chapter 18: Maria Morelli: “Kaleidoscopic Sexualities: Defying Normative Resistance and Maternal Melancholia in Aracoeli”Part Four: Morante’s Essays: the Self, Society and ArtChapter 19: Flavia Cartoni: “Between Perception and Prophecy: Elsa Morante’s Reflections for the Present”Chapter 20: Kenise Lyons: “‘Pro o Contro La rabbia’: Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Work of Art in the Atomic Age”Chapter 21: Claudia Karagoz: “Timely Anachronisms: Elsa Morante, Adriana Cavarero and Roberto Esposito on Power, Violence, and Subjectivity”Analytical IndexBios contributors