Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities: (7 Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean)

Reconsidering the Mediterranean, appreciating and demarginalizing the peoples and cultures of this vast region, while considering the affinities and differences, is a valuable part of the process of unframing and reframing the concept of the Mediterranean. The authors of this volume follow Franco Cassano’s refusal of a sort of prêt-à-porter reality of cohabitation of cultures, introducing instead un’alternativa mediterranea, a world of multiple cultures that entails an ongoing learning and experiencing. The volume’s contributors use an interdisciplinary approach that mirrors the hybridity of the area and of the discipline, that is much more introspective and humanistic, more contemporary and inclusive.

Table of Contents:
Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities  Giovanna Summerfield 1 Places and Moments of Mediterranean Reason: A Critical Reconnaissance  Antonio Cecere 2 Three’s a Crowd? Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as Representative Third Place  Jessica R. Boll 3 Women at the Spanish Mediterranean Border: The Liminal Space of Legality  Stefania Licata 4 A Mediterranean Theater: Different Representations of Muslim Otherness in Early Modern Maltese Public Feasts  Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri 5 Elated Images of Jāhilīyah in Sicilian Decorative Arts of the Twelfth Century: The Islamic Iconography of Divertissement  Valentina Grasso 6 The Madonna delle Milizie di Scicli and the Legacies of Contact in Sicily  Sherine Hafez 7 A Porous Mediterranean Écriture Féminine: Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto  Roberta Cauchi-Santoro 8 Marriage Annulment Lawsuits in XIX Century Sicily  Elena Frasca 9 Sicily, Spain and the Mediterranean in Leonardo Sciascia’s Literary Production  Marco Pioli 10 A Journey in Search of the Ancient Flavors of Sicily   Gastro-tourism: Critical Issues and Opportunities for Development  Maria Sorbello 11 Southern European Clientelism   A Case Study, Catania (Sicily): From Mass Party to Leader-Centered Clientelism  Giuseppe Serrantino 12 A Long Migration   Cooperatives Practices and Social Innovation in Mediterranean Europe (1848–1900)  Samuel Boscarello 13 Towards a “Mediterranean Social Model”?    Welfare Policies in Italy and Spain during the Interwar Period  Elena Serina 14 Tracing “New Mediterranean Borders” through Artworks and Theater  Rosario Pollicino Index

About the Author :
Giovanna Summerfield, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Italian and French at Auburn University. She has published extensively on French and Italian literature, women’s studies, and Mediterranean studies. She serves as editor of Italica and co-editor of I.S. Med. - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean. Rosario Pollicino, Ph.D. (2019), is Instructor of Italian Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He has published on Italian colonialism, transnational Italy and Mediterranean studies. He serves as co-editor of I.S. Med. - Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean. Contributors are: Antonio Cecere, Jessica Boll, Stefania Licata, Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri, Valentina Grasso, Sherine Hafez, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, Elena Frasca, Marco Pioli, Maria Sorbello, Giuseppe Serrantino, Samuel Boscarello, Elena Serina.