Transatlantic literary transfers in the Second Italian Renaissance

The circulation of Italian culture in the U.S. in the post-war era

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ID12547784
AuthorsCristina Iuli (0000-0001-9590-5889, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy, corresponding author), Simone Cinotto (0000-0003-3519-5437, Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo, Italy)
Year2024
Volume29
Issue2
Pages93-110
Publication date2024-03-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1354571x.2024.2304984
OpenAlexW4392519417
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited15

This article introduces the special issue "Transatlantic literary transfers in the Second Italian Renaissance: the circulation of Italian culture in the U.S. in the Post-war Era", presenting new knowledge on the collaborative, transnational network that emerged between Italy and the U.S. in the post-war years and facilitated the circulation of Italian literary products in the U.S. By considering literary objects as a special class of products that participated to the establishment and consolidation of "Made in Italy", and by showing how Italian literary cultures functioned as vectors of a "new" Italian modernity, the article claims that the success of "Made in Italy" was due in no small part to a storytelling strategy that emphasized: (1) the strong friendship between the two nations in the context of the new, globalized world; and (2) the mobilization of the trope of the Renaissance in the service of a projected continuity between Italian early and "new" modernity

Art · Art history · Circulation (fluid dynamics · Economic history · Literature · Political science · The Renaissance · Classics · Engineering · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

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