Thinking Italian Animals

Preface: Mimesis: The Heterospecific as Ontopoetic Epiphany; Roberto Marchesini Introduction: Thinking Italian Animals; Deborah Amberson and Elena Past PART I: ONTOLOGIES AND THRESHOLDS 1. Confronting the Specter of Animality: Tozzi and the Uncanny Animal of Modernism; Deborah Amberson 2. Cesare Pavese, Posthumanism, and the Maternal Symbolic; Elizabeth Leake 3. Montale's Animals: Rhetorical Props or Metaphysical Kin?; Gregory Pell 4. The Word Made Animal Flesh: Tommaso Landolfi's Bestiary; Simone Castaldi 5. Animal Metaphors, Biopolitics, and the Animal Question: Mario Luzi, Giorgio Agamben, and the Human-Animal Divide; Matteo Gilebbi PART II: BIOPOLITICS AND HISTORICAL CRISIS 6. Creatureliness and Posthumanism in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò; Alexandra Hills 7. Elsa Morante at the Biopolitical Turn: Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible; Giuseppina Mecchia 8. Foreshadowing the Posthuman: Hybridization, Apocalypse, and Renewal in Paolo Volponi; Daniele Fioretti 9. The Post-Apocalyptic Cookbook: Animality, Posthumanism, and Meat in Laura Pugno and Wu Ming; Valentina Fulginiti PART III: ECOLOGIES AND HYBRIDIZATIONS 10. The Monstrous Meal: Flesh Consumption and Resistance in the European Gothic; David Del Principe 11. Contemporaneità and Ecological Thinking in Carlo Levi's Writing; Giovanna Faleschini Lerner 12. Hybriditales: Posthumanizing Calvino; Serenella Iovino 13. (Re)membering Kinship: Living with Goats in The Wind Blows Round and Le quattro volte; Elena Past