Joseph Francese
Biographic Data
| ID | 586291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Francese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Francese |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCESE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2612-9108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Storia DI Matteotti
In this study—written, in a discursive style, at the conclusion of the “Anno Matteottiano” (the centenary of the assassination of the Socialist deputy on 10 June 1924) — Fabio Vander demonstrates t...
Baile Donde Quieras”
On September 16, 2022, Real Madrid footballer Vinícius Jr. posted on social media to push back against racist responses to his dance goal celebrations, stating, “I won’t stop dancing. Whether at the Sambodrome, at the Bernabéu or wherever.” In this article, we trace the political impact of Vinícius Jr.'s football goal celebrations that draw on racialized Afro-Brazilian dance traditions and a larger Black diasporic football politics. Next, we cont…
“Red Future”
Between December 1, 2023, and February 29, 2024, two Native hip hop tracks were released that embody Indigenous futurism— Futuristic Ndns by SouFy featuring Def-i and Nataanii Means, and Red Future by Snotty Nose Rez Kids. This article argues that many Native hip hop artists use both the Native technosphere and on the ground communities to disseminate Native hip hop bundles that hold radical possibilities for the building of Native futures. First…
Language revitalization through Indigenous Mexican hip hop
This article demonstrates how language revitalization through Indigenous Mexican hip hop can continue to Indigenize decolonial pedagogical spaces, help strengthen Black/Indigenous solidarity, and aid in building the infrastructures for Indigenous futures. First, I assert that using and transmitting Indigenous languages through hip hop can challenge Eurocentric pedagogy by engaging in decolonial and public pedagogies. Drawing on Jennifer Wemigwans…
La carta veloce
La carta veloce: figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento." Italian Culture, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Parma dreamin’’
In Il serpente , Luigi Malerba's first novel, the writer moves from the objectifying perspective, working-class protagonists, and themes of neorealism to a subjective realism that sets aside the direct dialogue of his first book ( La scoperta dell'alfabeto , a collection of brief narratives) in favor of the exterior monologue. The narrating voice of Il serpente feels compelled to relive the guilt, shame, and humiliation of his youth. He prevarica…
Italian Diaspora Studies
Levels of reality, and of verisimilitude, in Malerba's Il pianeta azzurro
Malerba's Il pianeta azzurro is a rich text with a strong ethical and political message. One of its three narrating voices, L’autore, is a sort of Everyman, a synecdoche for the writer and his readers. By attributing to L’autore well-known aspects of his own private life, Malerba involves himself personally in the text, taking responsibility for its message and partial responsibility for the degradation that during his lifetime overtook Italian l…
Vincenzo Padula’s Il Bruzio
The studies of Vincenzo Padula (25 March 1819–8 January 1893) of Calabria’s peasantry (their language, customs, mores, and living conditions) predate Giuseppe Pitrè’s by a decade and were considered a model for literary verismo by Benedetto Croce. I introduce an anglophone audience to this secondary but important author through a discussion of Il Bruzio, a semi-weekly periodical he wrote almost single-handedly and published in Cosenza (1864–1865)…
Antonio Gramsci, Scritti (1910-1926), Sezione Diretta da Leonardo Rapone, Vol. 1. 1910-1916
Given the indisputable importance of Gramsci for modern and contemporary thought, this volume—whose editing is a tribute to the historical materialist method of inquiry, the “storicismo assoluto” t
Staged Narratives/Narrative Stages
Maria Baroncini, Memorie degli anni difficili
Leonardo Sciascia in the pages of di guardia! Quindicinale della Federazione dei Fasci di Combattimento di Caltanissetta
In this article I examine, within their historical context, eleven editorial commentaries by Leonardo Sciascia published in 1940–1941 in di guardia!, the bi-weekly publication of the Fasci di Combattimento di Caltanissetta. These opinion pieces deal almost exclusively with foreign policy. Consideration of them within their here and now allows me to compare and contrast the image of the youthful Sciascia that emanates directly from the pages of di…
Cosa Loro. Mafie tra cronaca e riflessione. 1970–2010
The Death Penalty and Narrative Strategies in Porte aperte by Leonardo Sciascia
This paper analyzes narrative strategies used by Leonardo Sciascia in Porte aperte to create, among readers, sympathy for and identification with his (nameless) protagonist, a judge and an opponent of capital punishment. The judge has been called on to preside over a murder trial in 1937, a decade after Fascism had re-instated the death penalty, considered by the Regime a deterrent that would allow Italians to sleep with “open doors.” To that end…
Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali
Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali collects the translations of three writings that have already appeared in English-speaking scientific journals - L'onore, il qualunquismo e l'essenzialismo ne L'antimonio di Sciascia, Sciascia e La scomparsa di Majorana and De L'Affaire Moro e della (ri)scrittura della storia - as well as an in-depth introduction that provides an overview of the author's research results on Sciascia - fr…
Leonardo Sciascia's L'affaire Moro
The author contends that Leonardo Sciascia's L'affaire Moro is not a work of non-fiction, as Sciascia proposed, but of historical fiction, and that Sciascia's Moro is a literary character, more a spokesperson for Sciascia's political views than a reflection of the historical figure. Sciascia's Moro embodies the same qualities as many of Sciascia's other protagonists, such as a radical individualism and willingness to sacrifice all in order to pro…
Memory and Nostalgia in Antonio Tabucchi's Last Two Books
In Il tempo invecchia in fretta, a collection of short stories (2009), and in Viaggi e altri viaggi, a travel book (2010), the Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi (1943–2012) investigates the conflict between interior time, or duration, and social, or historical time. Il tempo invecchia interrogates the dialectic between individual lives and grand historical processes. Viaggi—Tabucchi's intellectual autobiography—retrieves the past, which exists in…
Leonardo Sciascia and The Disappearance of Majorana
In The Disappearance of Majorana, the Italian novelist Leonardo Sciascia contends that a brilliant young physicist did not commit suicide in 1937, as is widely believed, but instead, sequestered himself into a convent rather than contribute to the development of an atomic bomb. Thus, Sciascia equates Ettore Majorana's ‘refusal of science’ with ‘responsible science’, whose scope, Sciascia suggests, must at times be restricted. By contrast, the aut…
Perspectives on Gramsci
Introduction - Joseph Francese 1. Gramsci's Conceptions Of Political Organization - Stanley Aronowitz 2. Reading Gramsci Now - Joseph A. Buttigieg 3. Sinking Roots: Using Gramsci In Contemporary Britain - Kate Crehan 4. Gramsci Now: Philology And Philosophy Of Praxis - Roberto M. Dainotto 5. Once Again On The Organic Capacities Of The Working Class: Antonio Gramsci As A Theorist Of Labor - Michael Denning 6. The Uses And Abuses Of Gramsci: Hegemo…
Romano Bilenchi's Poetics of an Ethics of Memory
The defining characteristic of the fictional writings of Romano Bilenchi is the depiction of critical life events that determine and condition subsequent decisions as those individual choices interact with grand historical tendencies. The examination of memory, in Bilenchi's way of viewing things, allows the creative artist to intervene in the present in a way that would give a direction to history. Literary art is not autonomous of its historica…
Thoughts on Gramsci's Need “To Do Something ‘ Für ewig ’”
Prior to being granted permission to keep writing materials in his prison cell, Antonio Gramsci described his Prison Notebooks as the foundation for “disinterested,” “für ewig” studies or book projects. Für ewig, a term Gramsci took from Goethe and which roughly translates as forever, in this context indicates not a retreat into an aesthetic sphere, but an immersion in a historical continuum. Similarly, “disinterested” connotes both a freedom fro…
The refashioning of Calvino's public self-image in the 1950s and early 1960s
Romancing the Family
Eco's Poetics of “The Model Reader”
In this essay the author argues that despite Eco's claims of ceding authority over his fictions to the reader, his poetics of the Model Reader serves to guide and condition reception. This is accomplished when the call for reader collaboration encourages the creation of a Model Author — a projection of reader desire for narrative closure and metaphysical certainty — who supplants the empirical writer as the ‘true’ author of the text. When the emp…
Language revitalization through Indigenous Mexican hip hop
This article demonstrates how language revitalization through Indigenous Mexican hip hop can continue to Indigenize decolonial pedagogical spaces, help strengthen Black/Indigenous solidarity, and aid in building the infrastructures for Indigenous futures. First, I assert that using and transmitting Indigenous languages through hip hop can challenge Eurocentric pedagogy by engaging in decolonial and public pedagogies. Drawing on Jennifer Wemigwans…
Levels of reality, and of verisimilitude, in Malerba's Il pianeta azzurro
Malerba's Il pianeta azzurro is a rich text with a strong ethical and political message. One of its three narrating voices, L’autore, is a sort of Everyman, a synecdoche for the writer and his readers. By attributing to L’autore well-known aspects of his own private life, Malerba involves himself personally in the text, taking responsibility for its message and partial responsibility for the degradation that during his lifetime overtook Italian l…
Leonardo Sciascia's L'affaire Moro
The author contends that Leonardo Sciascia's L'affaire Moro is not a work of non-fiction, as Sciascia proposed, but of historical fiction, and that Sciascia's Moro is a literary character, more a spokesperson for Sciascia's political views than a reflection of the historical figure. Sciascia's Moro embodies the same qualities as many of Sciascia's other protagonists, such as a radical individualism and willingness to sacrifice all in order to pro…
Thoughts on Gramsci's Need “To Do Something ‘ Für ewig ’”
Prior to being granted permission to keep writing materials in his prison cell, Antonio Gramsci described his Prison Notebooks as the foundation for “disinterested,” “für ewig” studies or book projects. Für ewig, a term Gramsci took from Goethe and which roughly translates as forever, in this context indicates not a retreat into an aesthetic sphere, but an immersion in a historical continuum. Similarly, “disinterested” connotes both a freedom fro…
On Homoerotic Tension in Michelangelo's Poetry
MLN - Volume 117, Number 1, January 2002 (Italian Issue)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Il realismo impopolare di Pier Paolo Pasolini
A proposito di due libri di poesia di Luigi Fontanella
(1993). A proposito di due libri di poesia di Luigi Fontanella. The Italianist: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 279-282
La via dei simboli. Psicologia analitica e letteratura italiana
La meritocrazia di Machiavelli. Dagli scritti politici alla Mandragola
The New Italian Novel
Sostiene Pereira. 1994
La poetica neobarocca in Calvino
Narrating the Postmodern Time and Space
Raccontare il postmoderno
Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon. Italo Calvino's Storytelling
On Homoerotic Tension in Michelangelo's Poetry
MLN - Volume 117, Number 1, January 2002 (Italian Issue)
Eco's Poetics of “The Model Reader”
In this essay the author argues that despite Eco's claims of ceding authority over his fictions to the reader, his poetics of the Model Reader serves to guide and condition reception. This is accomplished when the call for reader collaboration encourages the creation of a Model Author — a projection of reader desire for narrative closure and metaphysical certainty — who supplants the empirical writer as the ‘true’ author of the text. When the emp…
Romancing the Family
The refashioning of Calvino's public self-image in the 1950s and early 1960s
Thoughts on Gramsci's Need “To Do Something ‘ Für ewig ’”
Prior to being granted permission to keep writing materials in his prison cell, Antonio Gramsci described his Prison Notebooks as the foundation for “disinterested,” “für ewig” studies or book projects. Für ewig, a term Gramsci took from Goethe and which roughly translates as forever, in this context indicates not a retreat into an aesthetic sphere, but an immersion in a historical continuum. Similarly, “disinterested” connotes both a freedom fro…
Perspectives on Gramsci
Introduction - Joseph Francese 1. Gramsci's Conceptions Of Political Organization - Stanley Aronowitz 2. Reading Gramsci Now - Joseph A. Buttigieg 3. Sinking Roots: Using Gramsci In Contemporary Britain - Kate Crehan 4. Gramsci Now: Philology And Philosophy Of Praxis - Roberto M. Dainotto 5. Once Again On The Organic Capacities Of The Working Class: Antonio Gramsci As A Theorist Of Labor - Michael Denning 6. The Uses And Abuses Of Gramsci: Hegemo…
Romano Bilenchi's Poetics of an Ethics of Memory
The defining characteristic of the fictional writings of Romano Bilenchi is the depiction of critical life events that determine and condition subsequent decisions as those individual choices interact with grand historical tendencies. The examination of memory, in Bilenchi's way of viewing things, allows the creative artist to intervene in the present in a way that would give a direction to history. Literary art is not autonomous of its historica…
Leonardo Sciascia and The Disappearance of Majorana
In The Disappearance of Majorana, the Italian novelist Leonardo Sciascia contends that a brilliant young physicist did not commit suicide in 1937, as is widely believed, but instead, sequestered himself into a convent rather than contribute to the development of an atomic bomb. Thus, Sciascia equates Ettore Majorana's ‘refusal of science’ with ‘responsible science’, whose scope, Sciascia suggests, must at times be restricted. By contrast, the aut…
Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali
Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali collects the translations of three writings that have already appeared in English-speaking scientific journals - L'onore, il qualunquismo e l'essenzialismo ne L'antimonio di Sciascia, Sciascia e La scomparsa di Majorana and De L'Affaire Moro e della (ri)scrittura della storia - as well as an in-depth introduction that provides an overview of the author's research results on Sciascia - fr…
Leonardo Sciascia's L'affaire Moro
The author contends that Leonardo Sciascia's L'affaire Moro is not a work of non-fiction, as Sciascia proposed, but of historical fiction, and that Sciascia's Moro is a literary character, more a spokesperson for Sciascia's political views than a reflection of the historical figure. Sciascia's Moro embodies the same qualities as many of Sciascia's other protagonists, such as a radical individualism and willingness to sacrifice all in order to pro…
Memory and Nostalgia in Antonio Tabucchi's Last Two Books
In Il tempo invecchia in fretta, a collection of short stories (2009), and in Viaggi e altri viaggi, a travel book (2010), the Italian novelist Antonio Tabucchi (1943–2012) investigates the conflict between interior time, or duration, and social, or historical time. Il tempo invecchia interrogates the dialectic between individual lives and grand historical processes. Viaggi—Tabucchi's intellectual autobiography—retrieves the past, which exists in…
The Death Penalty and Narrative Strategies in Porte aperte by Leonardo Sciascia
This paper analyzes narrative strategies used by Leonardo Sciascia in Porte aperte to create, among readers, sympathy for and identification with his (nameless) protagonist, a judge and an opponent of capital punishment. The judge has been called on to preside over a murder trial in 1937, a decade after Fascism had re-instated the death penalty, considered by the Regime a deterrent that would allow Italians to sleep with “open doors.” To that end…
Cosa Loro. Mafie tra cronaca e riflessione. 1970–2010
Staged Narratives/Narrative Stages
Art (25 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Literature (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Italian Literature and Culture (11 works) · Humanities (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works)