Transnational subjects. Selected papers from XXVII AIA Conference. Vol. 1: Cultural and literary encounters.

Introduction

Transnational Subjects: Cultural and Literary Encounters - Rossella Ciocca, Annamaria Lamarra, C. Maria Laudando
Transnation: The Transnational Within - Bill Ashcroft

PART ONE - Transnational Transitions: Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging
Towards a Transnational Citizenship: Alternative Senses of Dwelling and Belonging - Celeste Ianniciello and Michaela Quadraro
Across the Transnation: Citizenship and Liminality in Jhumpa Lahiri´s Novels - Angelo Monaco
The Mediterranean in Patrick White´s Short Stories: a Place of Transition - Annalisa Pes
Unhomely Lives: Black and Queer Belongings in Contemporary Black British Culture - Emilio Amideo
Untimely Transitions: Cross–Talk and Spatio–Temporal Interferences in Salman Rushdie´s Early Novels - Giuseppe De Riso

PART TWO - Transcultural crossovers: global fiction and cultural memory
The Earth as a Sandwich: The Collapse of Geography in Douglas Coupland´s Global Imagination - Lucia Esposito
Writing for the World: Cultural Memory and International Bestsellers - Maurizio Ascari
Wuthering Heights and Bollywood Crossovers - Ivonne Defant
The Transnational Bard: the Myth of Shakespeare and the Questions of Nation/Appropriation - C. Bruna Mancini
Could–be–ness: ‘Fear–making´ in Contemporary America and the Narrative of Stephen King - Diane Ponterotto

PART THREE - Globalized literaty landscapes
Re–reading Mary Seacole´s Wonderful Adventures through Bernardine Evaristo´s Soul Tourists - Ester Gendusa
White Women Writers´ Representations of Africa as ‘Contact Zones´ Narratives: the Case of Alexandra Fuller - Nicoletta Brazzelli
Transnational Traumascapes in the Narrative of J. Safran Foer - Aureliana Natale
Wa(l)king up to Modernity: Journey Patterns of Memory, Trauma, and Exile in Contemporary British and American Literature - Paola Di Gennaro
‘Narrating at a Tangent´: Multiple Perspectives, Fluid Identities in The Bus Stopped and The Thing about Thugs by Tabish Khair - Elisabetta Marino
Non–Places as Sites for Intercultural Clashes in Sarah Kane´s Blasted and David Greig´s Damascus - Maria Elena Capitani
Cultural Globalisation and Transculturality ante litteram: The Romantics - Andrew Brayley
Joseph Conrad´s (Hated) Russian Connections: Fashioning the Russian Terrorist in The Career of a Nihilist (1889) and Under Western Eyes (1911) - Martina Ciceri

PART FOUR - transcultural re-writing
Obscene ‘Transubstantiation´ in Libertine Literature from Venice to London: La retorica delle puttane and The Whore´s Rhetorick - Susanna Zinato
History, Fiction, Transtextuality. Resistant Female Voices in Two Neo–Victorian Novels: The Piano and The Colour - Maria Teresa Chialant
Transnational Appropriations of Dickens: Fluid Identities in Lloyd Jones´s Mister Pip - Alessandra Squeo
Sherlock Holmes in America. A Literary Myth across Continents and Media - Mariaconcetta Costantini
‘The Penelope Syndrome´ in Margaret Atwood´s and Alice Munro´s Fiction - Eleonora Sasso
Women´s Transnational Shakespeare in Eighteenth Century English Literary Criticism: Elizabeth Montagu, a Case Study - Gilberta Golinelli
Exceeding Borders. Across Space, Gender and Art in the Life and Work of Elsa von Freytag–Loringhoven - Francesca Chiappini