City in Search of an Author : the Literary Identity of Trieste
Poised between the Mediterranean and the Mitteleuropa, crossroads of civilizations and seat of vibrant cultural and literary life, Trieste is now acknowledged as enjoying unrivalled cultural status amongst Italian cities. This volume, the first comprehensive study of Triestine literature in English, originally reassesses Trieste+ås literary identity, paying particular attention to the period between 1918 and 1954 when local writing became intensely aware of its local specificity and some of its central motifs came prominently to the fore. Trieste+ås singular border identity, mirrored in a vari
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Maps
Chronology (1910-96)
Introduction
Chapter 1 Literary Trieste, Triestine Literature and Triestinità
1. Triestine Literature: A Definition
2. The Heritage of the Pre-War Generation
3. The 'Myth of Trieste' and Triestinità
4. Literary Endogamy
5. Imagined Topographies
Chapter 2 Lettemtura di Frontiera-Letteratura di Frontiere
1. The Unbearable Lightness of the Border
2. A Maternal Border
3. The Foiba: Myth and History
Chapter 3 The Myth of an Italian Motherland
1. Irredentismo: A Local Brand of Nationalism. 2. Cultural Delay
Trieste and the Heritage of the Risorgimento
Trieste and the Two World Wars
Trieste and Romanticism
3. Italianità
4. Maternal Nationalism and the Italian Motherland
Chapter 4 Quale triestinita? Gender, Confession, Ethnicity
1. Women's Writing
Jewish Writers
Anti-Slav Writers
'Emancipated' Writers
2. The Jewish Community in Trieste
The Family
The Years of Psychoanalysis
3. Italy Looks East
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index of Authors
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