Thinking Italian Animals

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Deborah Amberson, Elena Past

Part 1. Ontologies and Thresholds

2. Confronting the Specter of Animality
Deborah Amberson

3. Cesare Pavese, Posthumanism, and the Maternal Symbolic
Elizabeth Leake

4. Montale’s Animals
Gregory Pell

5. The Word Made Animal Flesh
Simone Castaldi

6. Animal Metaphors, Biopolitics, and the Animal Question
Matteo Gilebbi

Part 2. Biopolitics and Historical Crisis

7. Creatureliness and Posthumanism in Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò
Alexandra Hills

8. Elsa Morante at the Biopolitical Turn
Giuseppina Mecchia

9. Foreshadowing the Posthuman
Daniele Fioretti

10. The Postapocalyptic Cookbook
Valentina Fulginiti

Part 3. Ecologies and Hybridizations

11. The Monstrous Meal
David Del Principe

12. Contemporaneità and Ecological Thinking in Carlo Levi’s Writing
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner

13. Hybriditales
Serenella Iovino

14. (Re)membering Kinship
Elena Past

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