Unframing and reframing Mediterranean spaces and identities. / / edited by Giovanna Summerfield and Rosario Pollicino.

• TeilnehmendeR: Summerfield, Giovanna,; Pollicino, Rosario,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) :; map.

"Reconsidering 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 pre^t-a`-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. Contributors are: Antonio Cecere, Jessica Boll, Stefania Licata, Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri, Valentina Grasso, Sherine Hafez, Roberta Cauchi-Santoro, Elena Frasca, Marco Pioli, Maria Sorbello, Giuseppe Serrantino, Samuel Boscarello, Elena Serina"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Places and moments of Mediterranean reason: a critical reconnaissance / Antonio Cecere -- Three's a crowd? Co´rdoba's Mosque-Cathedral as representative Third Place / Jessica R. Boll -- Women at the Spanish Mediterranean border: the Liminal Space of Legality / Stefania Licata -- A Mediterranean Theater: different pepresentations of Muslim otherness in early modern Maltese public feasts / Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri -- Elated images of Ja¯hili¯yah in Sicilian decorative arts of the twelfth century: the Islamic Iconography of divertissement / Valentina Grasso -- The Madonna delle Milizie di Scicli and the legacies of contact in Sicily / Sherine Hafez -- A porous Mediterranean E´criture Fe´minine: Elena Ferrante's L'amore molesto / Roberta Cauchi-Santoro -- Marriage annulment lawsuits in XIX century Sicily / Elena Frasca -- Sicily, Spain and the Mediterranean in Leonardo Sciascia's literary production / Marco Pioli -- A journey in search of the ancient flavors of Sicily gastro-tourism: critical issues and opportunities for development / Maria Sorbello -- Southern European clientelism a case study, Catania (Sicily): from mass party to leader-centered clientelism / Giuseppe Serrantino -- A long migration cooperatives practices and social innovation in Mediterranean Europe (1848-1900) / Samuel Boscarello -- Towards a "Mediterranean social model"? Welfare policies in Italy and Spain during the Interwar period / Elena Serina -- Tracing "New Mediterranean Borders" through artworks and theater / Rosario Pollicino.