Vol. 32 (2021): Mapping the Contemporary US Novel: Theories, Forms and Themes

With a Special Section edited by Pia Masiero and Virginia Pignagnoli

Published: 2021-09-30

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Special Section

• Introduction A Vocabulary of Reclaim

  Pia Masiero, Virginia Pignagnoli

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• Questioning the Borders of Contemporary US Fiction H.M. Naqvi’s “Home Boy”, 9/11 and the American Novel

  Cinzia Schiavini

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• Extinction, Rememory and the Deadly Work of Capitalism in Valeria Luiselli’s “Lost Children Archive”

  Cristina Iuli

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• Queer Realities Disidentification, Utopic Realism, and Contemporary American Fiction

  Ian Jayne

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• “We Ain’t Going Nowhere. We Here” Survival and Witness in Jesmyn Ward’s Fiction and Nonfiction

  Chiara Patrizi

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• The Self in/and History Historiographic Autofiction in Contemporary US Literature

  Paolo Simonetti

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• “War is Ninety Percent Myth” Post-postmodern Revisions of Vietnam in Denis Johnson’s “Fiskadoro” and “Tree of Smoke”

  Angelo Grossi

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• “In a Tumbling Void” DeLillo’s Late Lyrical Prose

  Daniela Daniele

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A Serialized Forum

• Frontiera/Frontiere: Conversazioni su confini e migrazioni tra il Mediterraneo e l’Atlantico Introduzione

  Valerio Massimo De Angelis

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• Da Sud a Nord? I fenomeni migratori

  Tommaso Detti

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Articles

• Listening in Khaled Mattawa’s “Zodiac of Echoes”

  Mirella Vallone

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• Narrating the Nuclear Armageddon The Atomic Menace in the US Popular Culture of the 1980s

  Angela Santese

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• “Detecting” the Specters of Chicano/a Past in Lucha Corpi’s “Eulogy for a Brown Angel”

  Fabiola Mazzola

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Original Work

• Introduction An Unpublished Poem by Pasquale Verdicchio

  Leonardo Buonomo

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• Sense of Support

  Pasquale Verdicchio

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Notes on Contributors

• Notes on Contributors

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Copyright Page

• Copyright page no. 32

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