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Book Launch: Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave 2020)

Book Launch: Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave 2020)

Moderated by Michael Cronin in conversation with the editor, Enrica Maria Ferrara. Readings by Tiziano Scarpa.
In English with readings in Italian

Over the past two centuries human identity has undeniably changed, renegotiating boundaries with nonhuman animals, the environment, technology and digital devices. This is a topic particularly relevant in the current climate considering the impact of nonhuman agents such as the coronavirus, environmental disasters, and smart technology on what it means to be human. A new posthuman human has emerged between the second half of the 19th century and our times. How has this new identity been captured in Italian literature and film?

Michael Cronin holds the Chair of French at Trinity College Dublin where he is also the Director of the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation. Author. Among his numerous publications in the field of translation studies, travel literature, and the Irish language, we will remember: Irish and Ecology / An Ghaeilge agus an Éiceolaíocht. Dublin: Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta, 2019; Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017); Translation in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2013).

Enrica Maria Ferrara is a Teaching Fellow in Italian at Trinity College Dublin. Her research is on Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, the intersection of narrative and performance in twentieth century literature, Elena Ferrante, and posthumanism. Publications include: Calvino e il teatro (Peter Lang, 2011); Il realismo teatrale nella narrativa del Novecento: Vittorini, Calvino, Pasolini (Firenze University Press, 2014). She is co-editor of Staged Narratives / Narrative Stages (Franco Cesati, 2017 with Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin), and editor of Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Tiziano Scarpa (born 16 May 1963) is an Italian novelist, playwright and poet. Born in Venice, in 2009 he won the Strega Prize and the SuperMondello Prize for his novel, Stabat mater. His books have been translated in many languages.

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  • Organizzato da: IIC Dublino