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Full Description
Delves into Italian contributions to these genres and what those contributions mean to global Italian cultural and political identity.
Diverse and minority populations worldwide have often embraced horror, science fiction, and fantasy narratives as a means of coming to terms with the multigenerational processes of migration and enculturation and of acting in opposition to totalitarian forces everywhere. Italian/American Fantastika explores how works in these genres by and about Italians from Italy, Canada, and the United States provide models for rethinking and refashioning what it means to be Italian in the twenty-first century. This is the first book to examine how Italian ethnic identity intersects with the whole universe of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, from the literary to the popular, and from print to visual media. Written by experts in multiple fields, from art history to film studies, and in an array of writing styles—scholarly, journalistic, personal, activist—this is a book for scholars and general readers interested in genre storytelling, ethnic studies, or the arts and humanities as a whole.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Science Fiction, Fantastika, and Italian American Identity
John Rieder
Preface: Are Italians Welcome on the Starship Enterprise? A Personal Essay on Witches, Starships, and a Little Wooden Boy
Marc DiPaolo
Introduction: "Is Italian American Speculative Fiction a Thing?"
Marc DiPaolo
Part 1 Defining a Field
1. Mutants in La Merica: The Whiteness of the Petrellis in NBC's Heroes
Anthony Lioi
2. Robots, Witches, and Paisani: Settler Colonial Systems and Intercultural Relation Building in Indigenous and Italian Canadian Fantastic Literature
Alec Follett
3. Vampires, Metaphysics, and Italian American Identity in Abel Ferrara's The Addiction
Ciro Incoronato
Part 2 Case Studies in Italy's Fantasies, Futurisms, and Gothic Horror
4. An Italian Nightmare: Gianni Montanari's La sepoltura Between Dystopia and Science Fiction
Umberto Rossi
5. Fascism and Pheromones: Futurist Fantasies of Domination in Bruce Sterling's Fantascienza
William Q. Malcuit
6. Italians of the Caribbean: Piracy and History in Salgari, Sabatini, and Pratt's Adventure Narratives
Cristian Soler
7. Genealogies of Horror: Dario Argento's Do You Like Hitchcock? Or, Reading National Horror Against the Local
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
8. "That Ghastly Whiteness": Dino Battaglia Adapts Poe and Melville to Comics Davide Carnevale
Interlude: Weird Italy: Dante and Italian Genre Fiction
Dominique Musorrafiti and Matteo Damiani
Part 3 Reimagining Italian America: Artifacts of Anti-fascist and Ecofeminist Fantastika
9. "The Ocean Inside Her": C. L. Herman's The Drowning Summer as Italian American Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Lisa Marie Paolucci
10. "True Blue" Humanities: Madonna's EcoFantastika
Drago Momcilovic
11. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Reconceptualizing Italia, Italian Americans, and Fantastika Through a Wooden Boy's Questions
Danel Olson
12. Race and Italian/American Identity in Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino and The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
Victoria Tomasulo
13. Dorothy Fontana: The New Jersey "Secretary" Who Cocreated Star Trek
Marc DiPaolo
Appendix: The Canon of Speculative Fiction of the Italian Diaspora
Dominique Musorrafiti, Matteo Damiani, and Marc DiPaolo
List of Contributors
Index
