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This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies. The volume explores how Italian comics culture transcends geographical and linguistic borders, revealing the mobility and multilingualism that characterise this dynamic field in the 21st century.Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from comics studies, Italian studies, and migration research, the collection examines key narrative themes including memory, migration, and transformation in contemporary Italian comics production. Contributors analyse diverse forms from autobiographical narratives and historical comics to graphic journalism and feminist artivism, demonstrating how Italian creators engage with complex social and political issues through sequential art. The book features research on iconic works such as Dylan Dog, contemporary graphic memoirs, and comics journalism addressing Mediterranean border crossings. Through case studies of collective biographies, transnational histories, and activist comics, the volume reveals how Italian comics serve as powerful vehicles for exploring identity, displacement, and social justice in an increasingly connected world.This collection will be essential reading for scholars of comics studies, Italian literature and culture, media studies, and migration research, offering new insights into the global circulation of Italian popular culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies. The volume explores how Italian comics culture transcends geographical and linguistic borders, revealing the mobility and multilingualism that characterise this dynamic field in the 21st century.Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from comics studies, Italian studies, and migration research, the collection examines key narrative themes including memory, migration, and transformation in contemporary Italian comics production. Contributors analyse diverse forms from autobiographical narratives and historical comics to graphic journalism and feminist artivism, demonstrating how Italian creators engage with complex social and political issues through sequential art. The book features research on iconic works such as Dylan Dog, contemporary graphic memoirs, and comics journalism addressing Mediterranean border crossings. Through case studies of collective biographies, transnational histories, and activist comics, the volume reveals how Italian comics serve as powerful vehicles for exploring identity, displacement, and social justice in an increasingly connected world.This collection will be essential reading for scholars of comics studies, Italian literature and culture, media studies, and migration research, offering new insights into the global circulation of Italian popular culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies. The volume explores how Italian comics culture transcends geographical and linguistic borders, revealing the mobility and multilingualism that characterise this dynamic field in the 21st century.Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from comics studies, Italian studies, and migration research, the collection examines key narrative themes including memory, migration, and transformation in contemporary Italian comics production. Contributors analyse diverse forms from autobiographical narratives and historical comics to graphic journalism and feminist artivism, demonstrating how Italian creators engage with complex social and political issues through sequential art. The book features research on iconic works such as Dylan Dog, contemporary graphic memoirs, and comics journalism addressing Mediterranean border crossings. Through case studies of collective biographies, transnational histories, and activist comics, the volume reveals how Italian comics serve as powerful vehicles for exploring identity, displacement, and social justice in an increasingly connected world.This collection will be essential reading for scholars of comics studies, Italian literature and culture, media studies, and migration research, offering new insights into the global circulation of Italian popular culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

Nessuna città d’Italia è più crepuscolare di Roma. Le relazioni fra il cenacolo romano di Sergio Corazzini e i simbolisti belgi propone un’analisi comparata (dal punto di vista semantico, lessicale, tematico e stilistico) fra i quattro principali animatori del cenacolo corazziniano (Corazzini, Martini, Marrone e Tarchiani) e i simbolisti belgi, in particolare Maeterlinck e Rodenbach, senza dimenticare Verhaeren, Gilkin, Elskamp e Van Lerberghe. Risulta esplicito, nella riflessione culturale dei principali esponenti della cerchia corazziniana, come sia necessario diventare «allievi» di una tradizione europea e come, nella ricerca di «maestri» che fornissero dignità e statuto letterario al gruppo, i simbolisti belgi, per affi nità di pensiero, atmosfere e linguaggio poetico, fossero stati individuati quali riferimenti principali. È attraverso la lettura delle loro opere che i membri del gruppo corazziniano maturano una visione «alternativa» di Roma, che se in parte risente anche delle descrizioni di altri scrittori italiani coevi, di fondo evidenzia una distanza dalle immagini classiche della capitale. Roma diviene così una città dell’anima, irreale ma al tempo stesso concreta, con le sue chiese di campagna, le sue vie che ne mostrano i lati non urbani, le visioni notturne di conventi che la fanno assomigliare alle città nordiche cantate dai simbolisti.

This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and feminist studies to explore how migration, colonialism, multiculturalism, and racism have been represented in genre film and literature. Topics include the role of science fiction in constructing a national identity; the representation and self-representation of “alien” immigrants in Italy; the creation of internal “Others,” such as southerners and Roma; the intersections of gender and race discrimination; and Italian science fiction’s transnational dialogue with foreign science fiction. This book reveals that though it is arguably a minor genre in Italy, science fiction offers an innovative interpretive angle for rethinking Italian history and imagining future change in Italian society.