Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finch-Race, Daniel A.

Contributor:

Guaraldo, Emiliano

Malvestio, Marco

Series:

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies ; v.80

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.;)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool University Press 2023

Summary:

This volume explores Italian science fiction from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, covering literary texts, films, music and visual works by figures as diverse as Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Peter Kolosimo, Primo Levi, Antonio Margheriti, Gilda Musa and Roberto Vacca. It broadens the horizons of both Italian studies and the environmental humanities by addressing a long-neglected genre, and expands our understanding of relations between the ecological, the imaginary and the sociopolitical. The chapters draw on a variety of methodological frameworks, including animal studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, eco-media studies, energy humanities and posthumanism. The reader will gain insights into consequential topics such as anthropocentrism/speciesism, ecomodernist thought, environmental justice struggles at the planetary and regional level, non-human and new materialist ontologies, utopian/dystopian philosophies and prospects for transitioning beyond the crisis of petro-modernity through the construction of post-depletion futures.Open Access versions of the introduction and six of the book chapters are available on the Liverpool University Press website.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Translations

Introduction: Greening Italian Science Fiction - New Approaches to a Deep-Rooted Genre (Daniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, and Marco Malvestio)

Section I Visions of Annihilation

A Post-Apocalyptic Garden of Eden: Marco Ferreri's Il seme dell'uono (1969) (Emiliano Guaraldo)

Cultural and Ecological Extinction in Primo Levi's Science Fiction (Michele Maiolani)

Spaceships in the Anthropocene: Peter Kolosimo and the End of (Our) Times (Marco Malvestio)

Section II Degeneration and Retrotopia

Italian Science-Fiction Writers against the Economic Boom in the 1960s (Daniele Comberiati)

Barbarism, Animalization, and the End of the World: Fantasies of Regression and Mutation in Italian Science Fiction (Simona Micali)

Against Eco-Fascism: Space and Place in Tullio Avoledo's Furland (Florian Mussgnug)

Eco-Horror: Human-Animal Encounters in Italian Science-Fiction Film (Robert A. Rushing)

Section III Scaping Eco-Flux

Bonsai Children, Enchanted Gardens: Nature as Artifice in Paolo Zanotti's Dystopian Fairy Tale (Valentina Fulginiti)

Uncanny Spaces in Inhuman Times: The Art of Giacomo Costa (Matteo Gilebbi)

Herbert Pagani's Mégalopolis: A Rock Opera between Dystopian Science Fiction and Ecological Utopia (Eleonora Lima)

Section IV Rethinking Environmental Politics and Ethics

Ecofeminist Care at the End of the World: Collaborative Survival in Niccolò Ammaniti's Anna and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's L'isola delle madri (Raffaella Baccolini and Chiara Xausa)

Green Traces: Vegetal Imagination in Italian Science Fiction from Gilda Musa to Solarpunk (Enrico Cesaretti)

'All We Need Is Love'?: Eros, Agape, and Koinonia in the Time of Mass Extinction (Danila Cannamela).

Industrial Wonders and Pitfalls in Agostino della Sala Spada's Nel 2073! (1874) and Émile Souvestre's Le monde tel qu'il sera en l'an 3000 (1846) (Daniel A. Finch-Race)

Interview

Solarpunk, or rather Solartivismo: An Interview with Francesco Verso (Ariella Saiber)

Notes on Contributors

Index.

ISBN:

1-83553-421-X

1-83764-560-4

OCLC:

1523140679