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Item Open Access Austro-Italian Encounters: An Introduction(L'Anello che Non Tiene: journal of modern Italian literature, 2020) Ziolkowski, SaskiaIntroduction to "Austro-Italian Encounters" a group of articles by Sandra Parmegiani, Salvatore Pappalardo, Elizabeth Schächter, Susanne C. Knittel, and Mimmo Cangiano. These five articles build on perspectives that see the nation as part of a complex, larger geographical configurations.Item Open Access Book Review: Giani Stuparich, One Year of School and The Island, translated by Charles Klopp and Melinda Nelson(Forum Italicum: a journal of Italian studies) Ziolkowski, SaskiaItem Open Access Dreams and Ambiguity on Svevo’s European Stage: La rigenerazione and A Midsummer Night’s Dream(2015) Ziolkowski, SaskiaItem Open Access Introduction: Global Ginzburg—Reading Natalia Ginzburg in the Twenty-First Century(2024-07-29) Ziolkowski, Saskia; Milkova Rousseva, StilianaOffering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg’s works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry.Item Open Access “It Is Hard to Choose”: An Italian Author on Migration, Diaspora, African Literature, and the Limits of Labels(2024-11-20) Scego, Igiaba; Ziolkowski, SaskiaThe interview was conducted in English in October 2021 via Zoom by Saskia Ziolkowski of Duke University, where Igiaba Scego was a visiting scholar in Fall 2022. Igiaba Scego is an Italian author of novels, memoirs, and short stories that have been central to debates in Italy about migration, colonialism, postcolonialism, racism, and women’s writings. Scego was born in Rome in 1974 to a family of Somali ancestry. Her short story “Salsicce” (“Sausages”) was awarded the Eks & Tra prize for migrant writing in 2003. Giovanna Bellesia and Victoria Offredi Poletto translated this now famous story into English (2005). Scego’s memoir La mia casa è dove sono (My Home Is Where I am, 2010) won Italy’s prestigious Mondello Prize. She has also edited a number of volumes, including Italiani per vocazione (2005, with works by authors who moved to Italy), Anche Superman era un rifugiato (2018, a collection which underscores connections between refugees over time), and Future: il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi (2019, a collection by Black Italian women authors). Her non-fiction appears in venues such as The Guardian, World Literature Today, Internazionale, and Corriere della Sera.Item Open Access Item Open Access Kafka and Italy: A New Perspective on the Italian Literary Landscape(2011) Ziolkowski, SaskiaHow do we compose a coherent account of a personality with so many contradictory aspects? All these questions and more are addressed by the essays in this volume, written by a group of leading international Kafka scholars.Item Open Access Morante and Kafka: The Gothic Walking Dead and Talking Animals(2014-12-18) Ziolkowski, SaskiaThis book revisits the philosophy and aesthetic Elsa Morante outlined in her literary writings.Item Open Access Names, Mediation, and Italian Literature in Emilia Galotti: From Dante’s Galeotto to Lessing’s Galotti(Lessing Yearbook, 2016) Ziolkowski, SaskiaItem Open Access Neither Rich, Nor Poor, Neither Jewish, Nor Catholic: The Legacies of Natalia Ginzburg’s Negations(2024-07-29) Ziolkowski, SaskiaOffering comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to Natalia Ginzburg, this volume situates Ginzburg’s works within major critical discourses to articulate innovative readings and mobilize further lines of inquiry.Item Open Access Primo Levi and jewish Italy(Journal of the Kafka Society of America, 2012) Ziolkowski, SaskiaItem Open Access Superman in Italy: The power of refugee artists(2022-10-25) Ziolkowski, SaskiaThis comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures, arts and social cultures, in early modern times and today.Item Open Access Svevo's Dogs: Kafka and the Importance of Svevo's Animals(2014-06-28) Ziolkowski, SaskiaItem Open Access The Emergence of Austro-Italian Literary Studies(Journal of Austrian Studies) Ziolkowski, Saskia; Pappalardo, SalvatoreItem Open Access Thomas Bernhard, Italo Calvino, Elena Ferrante, and Claudio Magris: From Postmodernism to Anti-Semitism(2020-10-01) Ziolkowski, SaskiaWriters in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard's Austrian vision an international vision. This book tells that story.