All Outputs (5)

Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation (2020)
Book
Burdett, C., Polezzi, L., & Spadaro, B. (Eds.). (2020). Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation. Liverpool University Press

The Transnational/Translational in Italian Studies (2020)
Journal Article
Burdett, C., Havely, N., & Polezzi, L. (2020). The Transnational/Translational in Italian Studies. Italian Studies, 75(2), 223-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2020.1744869

Playing on Apter’s ‘translational transnationalism’ and on the tension between the national and global, this article asks what it means to think translationally and transnationally in the context of Italian studies. The three authors explore both the... Read More about The Transnational/Translational in Italian Studies.

Secrets and Lies: Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017) and the Uncovered Memory of Italian East Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Burdett, C. (2020). Secrets and Lies: Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017) and the Uncovered Memory of Italian East Africa. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 56(1), 49-65. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz057

It is true that expansionism under Fascism did not, for a long time, receive the attention that it deserved. This period of historiographic and literary amnesia has now, however, come to a close. As regards literary production, recent years have seen... Read More about Secrets and Lies: Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017) and the Uncovered Memory of Italian East Africa.

Transnational Time: Reading Post-War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Burdett, C. (2018). Transnational Time: Reading Post-War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa. Italian Studies, 73(3), 274-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2018.1487108

Developing from a discussion of the importance of placing Italian culture in transnational perspective, this article addresses the representation of the Italian presence in East Africa during the colonial period and in the decades following the Secon... Read More about Transnational Time: Reading Post-War Representations of the Italian Presence in East Africa.

Italy, Islam and the Islamic World (2016)
Book
Burdett, C. (2016). Italy, Islam and the Islamic World. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0790-0

The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as Italy’s second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has generated an intense and often polarized debate that has involved all the cultural, political and religious institutions o... Read More about Italy, Islam and the Islamic World.