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Book SynopsisReconsidering the Mediterranean, appreciating and demarginalizing the peoples and cultures of this vast region, while considering the affinities and differences, is a valuable part of the process of unframing and reframing the concept of the Mediterranean. The authors of this volume follow Franco Cassano’s refusal of a sort of prêt-à-porter reality of cohabitation of cultures, introducing instead un’alternativa mediterranea, a world of multiple cultures that entails an ongoing learning and experiencing. The volume’s contributors use an interdisciplinary approach that mirrors the hybridity of the area and of the discipline, that is much more introspective and humanistic, more contemporary and inclusive.
Table of ContentsFigures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities Giovanna Summerfield 1 Places and Moments of Mediterranean Reason: A Critical Reconnaissance Antonio Cecere 2 Three’s a Crowd? Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral as Representative Third Place Jessica R. Boll 3 Women at the Spanish Mediterranean Border: The Liminal Space of Legality Stefania Licata 4 A Mediterranean Theater: Different Representations of Muslim Otherness in Early Modern Maltese Public Feasts Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri 5 Elated Images of Jāhilīyah in Sicilian Decorative Arts of the Twelfth Century: The Islamic Iconography of Divertissement Valentina Grasso 6 The Madonna delle Milizie di Scicli and the Legacies of Contact in Sicily Sherine Hafez 7 A Porous Mediterranean Écriture Féminine: Elena Ferrante’s L’amore molesto Roberta Cauchi-Santoro 8 Marriage Annulment Lawsuits in XIX Century Sicily Elena Frasca 9 Sicily, Spain and the Mediterranean in Leonardo Sciascia’s Literary Production Marco Pioli 10 A Journey in Search of the Ancient Flavors of Sicily Gastro-tourism: Critical Issues and Opportunities for Development Maria Sorbello 11 Southern European Clientelism A Case Study, Catania (Sicily): From Mass Party to Leader-Centered Clientelism Giuseppe Serrantino 12 A Long Migration Cooperatives Practices and Social Innovation in Mediterranean Europe (1848–1900) Samuel Boscarello 13 Towards a “Mediterranean Social Model”? Welfare Policies in Italy and Spain during the Interwar Period Elena Serina 14 Tracing “New Mediterranean Borders” through Artworks and Theater Rosario Pollicino Index
