Lucia Re
Biographic Data
| ID | 690220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucia Re |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucia |
| FAMILY NAME | Re |
| SIGNATURE | RE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Molteplicità del possible
The Memos theorize principles or "values" that in Calvino's view were especially relevant and important for literature (or, rather, poetry in the broader sense set forth by Harvard)-always seen in relation to other forms of discourse and expression-as it faced the new millennium, a millennium which Calvino, who died on September 19, 1985 at the age of 61 in the Santa Maria della Scala hospital in Siena (where he underwent emergency surgery after …
Difendere l'uguaglianza. Verso la democrazia costituzionale della cura
We are facing an alternative: either we defend the political project of equality on \nwhich (inter)national constitutionalism is based or we accept the definitive triumph of the \npolitical project of inequality fostered by neoliberalism. The political theory of care indicates \na way out. It not only makes it possible to denounce intersectional inequalities, but it \nproposes an anthropological model based on the recognition of interdependence. …
A Mediterranean Woman Writer from Naples to Tangier
Italian-born author and scholar Elisa Chimenti (Naples 1883—Tangier 1969), still virtually unknown to English-language readers and scholars (and scarcely known to this day even in France and Italy) devoted much of her life’s work to recording and translating the oral traditions of the people, particularly the women, of Morocco, the country where she elected to spend most of her life, living and teaching Italian and other languages in Tangier and…
Towards a Literary and Feminist Neo-Avant-Garde
Despite her active involvement in several of the Gruppo 63’s meetings and activities over the years, Carla Vasio (b. 1923) is rarely mentioned in critical discussions of the Italian neo-avant-garde, and very little attention has been devoted to her work. This is not an isolated oversight, but a part of a larger pattern of marginalizing women writers. Our reading of two of Vasio’s most interesting and innovative novels— L’orizzonte (1966) and La p…
Carla Vasio e il nuovo lavoro di Penelope
Il saggio propone un'analisi testuale e contestuale del romanzo breve L'orizzonte (1966) di Carla Vasio, composto all'epoca del suo sodalizio col Gruppo 63. Pur aderendo a un paradigma modernista sperimentale del raccontare, Vasio non rinuncia alla ricerca di un “orizzonte” ermeneutico e psicologico, e si distacca dunque dalla tendenza all'indeterminatezza labirintica e all'abolizione dell'io caratteristiche della neoavanguardia. Benché mai fisso…
Gian Maria Annovi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy's first postcolonial novel and the end of (neo)realism
In this article, I argue that Ennio Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere (A Time to Kill, 1947) is both the first Italian postcolonial novel and a highly complex literary work that should be acknowledged as a major text of twentieth-century literature. I discuss the hermeneutic function of parodic intertextuality in Tempo di uccidere, and its relationship with Dante's Commedia. Tempo di uccidere not only subverts many tenets of neorealism (and may therefo…
Eleonora Duse and Women
The article explores Eleonora Duse’s particular take on feminism before World War One and the influence she had on intellectual women through her acting, her letter-writing and her persona as a liberated, professional and creative woman. Duse is seen as a precursor of later feminist practices of affidamento (entrustment) in Italy. Through both her creative performance and interpretation of women’s stories on stage and her complex web of often-int…
Pasolini vs. Calvino, One More Time
From Dante on, writers and intellectuals have played a crucial role in Italy, acting as a sort of collective “critical conscience” and providing some sense of a common identity in spite of the country’s chronic socio-political, economic and cultural fragmentation. In recent years, the usual laments over the “decline” and failures of Italian intellectuals, bemoaning especially the disappearance of impegno in the postmodern era, have multiplied and…
Barbari civilizzatissimi’
In light of the specific cultural history of Italy and of Marinetti's African provenance, the persistent self-proclaimed primitivism and barbarism of the Italian futurists is discussed in contrast to other versions of modernist and avant-garde primitivism. Postcolonial critics have highlighted the complicity and affinity between primitivist avant-gardes and European imperialism in Africa. Yet Italian futurism cannot be simply assimilated to the i…
Italians and the Invention of Race
Lucia Re Race and Italian IdentityThe manifestations of racism and xenophobia in Italy since the 1990s, especially in response to the new waves of immigration from "the other side" of the Mediterranean, have prompted scholars and cultural critics to take up once again the question of the role of race in Italian history. 1 Once thought to be only a temporary aberration of the Fascist era and essentially alien to the Italian "character," racism has…
Mina Loy and the Quest for a Futurist Feminist Woman
Interpreters of futurism are often fascinated by its most violent and misogynistic aspects, ignoring its other sides, and the liberatory effect that its attack on bourgeois values had on a considerable number of women. Yet one of the elements which make the complexity of futurism evident is the substantial participation of women in it. Valentine de Saint-Point, Enif Robert, Maria Ginanni, Irma Valeria, Rosa Rosà, and Benedetta (Marinetti's wife) …
Futurism and the Feminine
Futurism, Film and the Return of the Repressed
This essay provides a new reading of the only extant futurist film (Bragaglia's Thaïs), using it as a key to explore the reasons for Marinetti's resistance to cinema as an art form. The literary origins of the Thaïs myth are discussed, and the way the film introduces this femme fatale to stage a "return of the repressed" for the futurist avant-garde, while parodying the regime of commercial divismo. The meta-cinematic and allegorical dimensions o…
Futurism, Seduction, and the Strange Sublimity of War
(2004). Futurism, Seduction, and the Strange Sublimity of War. Italian Studies: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 83-111
Futurism, Seduction, and the Strange Sublimity of War
Language, Gender and Sexuality in the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde
Like its "historical" predecessor, the Italian neoavanguardia was essentially male-dominated.Although it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where and when the Italian neo-avant-garde was born, the founding of the journal Il verri by Luciano Anceschi in Milan in 1956 is often cited as its starting-point, while the publication in 1961 of the anthology I novissimi, with excerpts from the work of Nanni Balestrini, Alfredo Giuliani, Elio Pagliarani, Ant…
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the …
D'Annunzio, Duse, Wilde, Bernhardt
MLN - Volume 117, Number 1, January 2002 (Italian Issue)
La Viandanza (review)
MLN - Volume 116, Number 1, January 2001 (Italian Issue)
La Futurista
Dialogo coi volanti (review)
MLN - Volume 115, Number 1, January 2000 (Italian Issue)
Calvino and the Value of Literature
MLN - Volume 113, Number 1, January 1998 (Italian Issue)
Utopian Longing and the Constraints of Racial and Sexual Difference in Elsa Morante's La Storia
La poesia di Vittorio Sereni. Alienazione e impegno
Italians and the Invention of Race
Lucia Re Race and Italian IdentityThe manifestations of racism and xenophobia in Italy since the 1990s, especially in response to the new waves of immigration from "the other side" of the Mediterranean, have prompted scholars and cultural critics to take up once again the question of the role of race in Italian history. 1 Once thought to be only a temporary aberration of the Fascist era and essentially alien to the Italian "character," racism has…
Italy's first postcolonial novel and the end of (neo)realism
In this article, I argue that Ennio Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere (A Time to Kill, 1947) is both the first Italian postcolonial novel and a highly complex literary work that should be acknowledged as a major text of twentieth-century literature. I discuss the hermeneutic function of parodic intertextuality in Tempo di uccidere, and its relationship with Dante's Commedia. Tempo di uccidere not only subverts many tenets of neorealism (and may therefo…
Barbari civilizzatissimi’
In light of the specific cultural history of Italy and of Marinetti's African provenance, the persistent self-proclaimed primitivism and barbarism of the Italian futurists is discussed in contrast to other versions of modernist and avant-garde primitivism. Postcolonial critics have highlighted the complicity and affinity between primitivist avant-gardes and European imperialism in Africa. Yet Italian futurism cannot be simply assimilated to the i…
Molteplicità del possible
The Memos theorize principles or "values" that in Calvino's view were especially relevant and important for literature (or, rather, poetry in the broader sense set forth by Harvard)-always seen in relation to other forms of discourse and expression-as it faced the new millennium, a millennium which Calvino, who died on September 19, 1985 at the age of 61 in the Santa Maria della Scala hospital in Siena (where he underwent emergency surgery after …
Pasolini vs. Calvino, One More Time
From Dante on, writers and intellectuals have played a crucial role in Italy, acting as a sort of collective “critical conscience” and providing some sense of a common identity in spite of the country’s chronic socio-political, economic and cultural fragmentation. In recent years, the usual laments over the “decline” and failures of Italian intellectuals, bemoaning especially the disappearance of impegno in the postmodern era, have multiplied and…
The Sign Revisited
La poesia di Vittorio Sereni. Alienazione e impegno
Utopian Longing and the Constraints of Racial and Sexual Difference in Elsa Morante's La Storia
Calvino and the Value of Literature
MLN - Volume 113, Number 1, January 1998 (Italian Issue)
La Futurista
Dialogo coi volanti (review)
MLN - Volume 115, Number 1, January 2000 (Italian Issue)
La Viandanza (review)
MLN - Volume 116, Number 1, January 2001 (Italian Issue)
D'Annunzio, Duse, Wilde, Bernhardt
MLN - Volume 117, Number 1, January 2002 (Italian Issue)
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the …
Futurism, Seduction, and the Strange Sublimity of War
(2004). Futurism, Seduction, and the Strange Sublimity of War. Italian Studies: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 83-111
Futurism, Seduction, and the Strange Sublimity of War
Language, Gender and Sexuality in the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde
Like its "historical" predecessor, the Italian neoavanguardia was essentially male-dominated.Although it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where and when the Italian neo-avant-garde was born, the founding of the journal Il verri by Luciano Anceschi in Milan in 1956 is often cited as its starting-point, while the publication in 1961 of the anthology I novissimi, with excerpts from the work of Nanni Balestrini, Alfredo Giuliani, Elio Pagliarani, Ant…
Futurism, Film and the Return of the Repressed
This essay provides a new reading of the only extant futurist film (Bragaglia's Thaïs), using it as a key to explore the reasons for Marinetti's resistance to cinema as an art form. The literary origins of the Thaïs myth are discussed, and the way the film introduces this femme fatale to stage a "return of the repressed" for the futurist avant-garde, while parodying the regime of commercial divismo. The meta-cinematic and allegorical dimensions o…
Mina Loy and the Quest for a Futurist Feminist Woman
Interpreters of futurism are often fascinated by its most violent and misogynistic aspects, ignoring its other sides, and the liberatory effect that its attack on bourgeois values had on a considerable number of women. Yet one of the elements which make the complexity of futurism evident is the substantial participation of women in it. Valentine de Saint-Point, Enif Robert, Maria Ginanni, Irma Valeria, Rosa Rosà, and Benedetta (Marinetti's wife) …
Futurism and the Feminine
Italians and the Invention of Race
Lucia Re Race and Italian IdentityThe manifestations of racism and xenophobia in Italy since the 1990s, especially in response to the new waves of immigration from "the other side" of the Mediterranean, have prompted scholars and cultural critics to take up once again the question of the role of race in Italian history. 1 Once thought to be only a temporary aberration of the Fascist era and essentially alien to the Italian "character," racism has…
Barbari civilizzatissimi’
In light of the specific cultural history of Italy and of Marinetti's African provenance, the persistent self-proclaimed primitivism and barbarism of the Italian futurists is discussed in contrast to other versions of modernist and avant-garde primitivism. Postcolonial critics have highlighted the complicity and affinity between primitivist avant-gardes and European imperialism in Africa. Yet Italian futurism cannot be simply assimilated to the i…
Pasolini vs. Calvino, One More Time
From Dante on, writers and intellectuals have played a crucial role in Italy, acting as a sort of collective “critical conscience” and providing some sense of a common identity in spite of the country’s chronic socio-political, economic and cultural fragmentation. In recent years, the usual laments over the “decline” and failures of Italian intellectuals, bemoaning especially the disappearance of impegno in the postmodern era, have multiplied and…
Eleonora Duse and Women
The article explores Eleonora Duse’s particular take on feminism before World War One and the influence she had on intellectual women through her acting, her letter-writing and her persona as a liberated, professional and creative woman. Duse is seen as a precursor of later feminist practices of affidamento (entrustment) in Italy. Through both her creative performance and interpretation of women’s stories on stage and her complex web of often-int…
Gian Maria Annovi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy's first postcolonial novel and the end of (neo)realism
In this article, I argue that Ennio Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere (A Time to Kill, 1947) is both the first Italian postcolonial novel and a highly complex literary work that should be acknowledged as a major text of twentieth-century literature. I discuss the hermeneutic function of parodic intertextuality in Tempo di uccidere, and its relationship with Dante's Commedia. Tempo di uccidere not only subverts many tenets of neorealism (and may therefo…
Carla Vasio e il nuovo lavoro di Penelope
Il saggio propone un'analisi testuale e contestuale del romanzo breve L'orizzonte (1966) di Carla Vasio, composto all'epoca del suo sodalizio col Gruppo 63. Pur aderendo a un paradigma modernista sperimentale del raccontare, Vasio non rinuncia alla ricerca di un “orizzonte” ermeneutico e psicologico, e si distacca dunque dalla tendenza all'indeterminatezza labirintica e all'abolizione dell'io caratteristiche della neoavanguardia. Benché mai fisso…
A Mediterranean Woman Writer from Naples to Tangier
Italian-born author and scholar Elisa Chimenti (Naples 1883—Tangier 1969), still virtually unknown to English-language readers and scholars (and scarcely known to this day even in France and Italy) devoted much of her life’s work to recording and translating the oral traditions of the people, particularly the women, of Morocco, the country where she elected to spend most of her life, living and teaching Italian and other languages in Tangier and…
Towards a Literary and Feminist Neo-Avant-Garde
Despite her active involvement in several of the Gruppo 63’s meetings and activities over the years, Carla Vasio (b. 1923) is rarely mentioned in critical discussions of the Italian neo-avant-garde, and very little attention has been devoted to her work. This is not an isolated oversight, but a part of a larger pattern of marginalizing women writers. Our reading of two of Vasio’s most interesting and innovative novels— L’orizzonte (1966) and La p…
Difendere l'uguaglianza. Verso la democrazia costituzionale della cura
We are facing an alternative: either we defend the political project of equality on \nwhich (inter)national constitutionalism is based or we accept the definitive triumph of the \npolitical project of inequality fostered by neoliberalism. The political theory of care indicates \na way out. It not only makes it possible to denounce intersectional inequalities, but it \nproposes an anthropological model based on the recognition of interdependence. …
Art (20 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (16 works) · Italian Literature and Culture (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Humanities (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Art history (9 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)