Elena Past
Biographic Data
| ID | 5147619 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Past |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Past |
| SIGNATURE | PAST E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2423-7534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Work
There could hardly be a more relevant moment to read Damiano Benvegnù’s powerful book, Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Work. COVID-19 taught the wider world about zoonosis and the complex processes via which the virus was “liberated” from its evolutionary niche: Launched across the borders of different species, the pandemic calls attention to our often failed cohabitation with more-than-human others (Iovino, 2020). Then, in the midst of a g…
Itinerant Ecocriticism, Southern Thought, and Italian Cinema on Foot
This short essay explores an impulse guiding Italian ecocriticism, and also a recurrent trend in Italian cinema: that of thinking on foot. Drawing on the work of sociologist and philosopher Franco Cassano, I consider why contemporary philosophers seek to understand Italy at a pace that works strategically (sometimes defiantly) against petroleum-fueled speed. Brief examples from three recent Italian films that proceed on foot (Basilicata Coast to …
Toxic fruits: Tomatoes, migration, and the new Italian slavery
In Italy, tomatoes exist at the intersection of national-cultural culinary pride, Mediterranean petro-politics, agro-environmental policy, and even gender politics. They occupy such an important place in the Italian imaginary, and in the world’s imaginary of Italy, that their cultural and culinary stature obscures the deplorable conditions of their production, and silences the voices of those whose labour delivers them to the global table. In thi…
Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human
Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle
Gadda’s ‘Pasticciaccio’ and the Knotted Posthuman Household
The celebrated final scenes of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s novel, “Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana”, find detective Ingravallo pursuing a clue as he investigates the brutal murder of Liliana Balducci, an upper-middle-class inhabitant of an apartment on the street of the novel’s title. The location for the book’s concluding showdown is a dilapidated house, or an “oikos”, to borrow from the Greek, into which the Investigator, an outsider, is int…
Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview
Barbara Pezzotti’s Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview is a new title in a growing field that considers — in English — Italy’s remarkable and prolific production o
Thinking Italian Animals
This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borde
Trash Is Gold: Documenting the Ecomafia and Campania's Waste Crisis
Journal Article “Trash Is Gold”: Documenting the Ecomafia and Campania's Waste Crisis Get access Elena Past Elena Past [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 20, Issue 3, Summer 2013, Pages 597–621, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/ist075 Published: 09 August 2013
Memoria in Noir: Un'indagine pluridisciplinare
Differences, Deceits and Desires: Murder and Mayhem in Italian Crime Fiction
Mirna Cicioni and Nicoletta Di Ciolla (eds) (2008) Differences, Deceits and Desires: Murder and Mayhem in Italian Crime Fiction (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press), 228 pp., ISBN: 9780874130
Toxic fruits: Tomatoes, migration, and the new Italian slavery
In Italy, tomatoes exist at the intersection of national-cultural culinary pride, Mediterranean petro-politics, agro-environmental policy, and even gender politics. They occupy such an important place in the Italian imaginary, and in the world’s imaginary of Italy, that their cultural and culinary stature obscures the deplorable conditions of their production, and silences the voices of those whose labour delivers them to the global table. In thi…
Trash Is Gold: Documenting the Ecomafia and Campania's Waste Crisis
Journal Article “Trash Is Gold”: Documenting the Ecomafia and Campania's Waste Crisis Get access Elena Past Elena Past [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 20, Issue 3, Summer 2013, Pages 597–621, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/ist075 Published: 09 August 2013
Memoria in Noir: Un'indagine pluridisciplinare
Differences, Deceits and Desires: Murder and Mayhem in Italian Crime Fiction
Mirna Cicioni and Nicoletta Di Ciolla (eds) (2008) Differences, Deceits and Desires: Murder and Mayhem in Italian Crime Fiction (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press), 228 pp., ISBN: 9780874130
Memoria in Noir: Un'indagine pluridisciplinare
Trash Is Gold: Documenting the Ecomafia and Campania's Waste Crisis
Journal Article “Trash Is Gold”: Documenting the Ecomafia and Campania's Waste Crisis Get access Elena Past Elena Past [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 20, Issue 3, Summer 2013, Pages 597–621, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/ist075 Published: 09 August 2013
Thinking Italian Animals
This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borde
Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle
Gadda’s ‘Pasticciaccio’ and the Knotted Posthuman Household
The celebrated final scenes of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s novel, “Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana”, find detective Ingravallo pursuing a clue as he investigates the brutal murder of Liliana Balducci, an upper-middle-class inhabitant of an apartment on the street of the novel’s title. The location for the book’s concluding showdown is a dilapidated house, or an “oikos”, to borrow from the Greek, into which the Investigator, an outsider, is int…
Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview
Barbara Pezzotti’s Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview is a new title in a growing field that considers — in English — Italy’s remarkable and prolific production o
Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human
Itinerant Ecocriticism, Southern Thought, and Italian Cinema on Foot
This short essay explores an impulse guiding Italian ecocriticism, and also a recurrent trend in Italian cinema: that of thinking on foot. Drawing on the work of sociologist and philosopher Franco Cassano, I consider why contemporary philosophers seek to understand Italy at a pace that works strategically (sometimes defiantly) against petroleum-fueled speed. Brief examples from three recent Italian films that proceed on foot (Basilicata Coast to …
Toxic fruits: Tomatoes, migration, and the new Italian slavery
In Italy, tomatoes exist at the intersection of national-cultural culinary pride, Mediterranean petro-politics, agro-environmental policy, and even gender politics. They occupy such an important place in the Italian imaginary, and in the world’s imaginary of Italy, that their cultural and culinary stature obscures the deplorable conditions of their production, and silences the voices of those whose labour delivers them to the global table. In thi…
Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Work
There could hardly be a more relevant moment to read Damiano Benvegnù’s powerful book, Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Work. COVID-19 taught the wider world about zoonosis and the complex processes via which the virus was “liberated” from its evolutionary niche: Launched across the borders of different species, the pandemic calls attention to our often failed cohabitation with more-than-human others (Iovino, 2020). Then, in the midst of a g…
Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)