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Item Open Access Infectious Liberty Biopolitics Between Romanticism and Liberalism(2021-04-06) Mitchell, RobertInfectious Liberty is available from the publisher on an open-access basis. "Infectious Liberty generatively reconceives Romantic literature as a set of counter-hegemonic techniques of biopolitical experimentation.Item 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 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 Language's Hopes: Global Modernism and the Science of Debabelization(2020-12-31) Vadde, AarthiTwenty-first century paradigms of global modernism implicitly endorse “babelization” (the inscrutable styles of literary texts, the addition of lesser taught languages to the field) as a corrective to linguistic imperialism and the reduction of language to a communicative medium. Yet this stance does not fully account for the distinction between natural and artificial languages. “Debabelization,” as linguist C. K. Ogden put it in 1931, motivated rich debates about the nature of language and whether technological intervention could make particular languages more efficient agents of cultural exchange. Designers of Esperanto, Ido, and Basic English each promised that their artificial language would bridge the gap between speakers of different national tongues. This essay shows how the competitive and techno-utopian discourse around auxiliary language movements intersects with the history and aesthetics of modernist literature. While linguists strove to regulate the vagaries of natural languages, modernist writers (for example, Aimé Césaire, G. V. Desani, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, H. G. Wells) used debabelization as a trope for exploring the limits of scientific objectivity and internationalist sentiment.Item Open Access Mark Twain in China(2015-05-13) Lai-Henderson, SelinaLooking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his ...Item 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 Sociability and Its Enemies: German Political Theory After 1945(2014-01-01) Norberg, JItem Open Access Svevo's Dogs: Kafka and the Importance of Svevo's Animals(2014-06-28) Ziolkowski, SaskiaItem 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.Item Open Access Translation and International Reception(2020-01-02) Lai-Henderson, SelinaMark Twain In Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of one of the most celebrated American writers.