Emilio Salgari - The Tiger Is Still Alive!

In the first complete study to be published in English, author Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato defines Emilio Salgari as a postcolonial author ante litteram. This work examines Salgari’s widely read and translated adventure novels and their challenge of common notions of orientalism, the subaltern, and hybridity.

List of contents

Introduction: "I Say Farewell to You by Breaking My Pen:" The Short (Un)happy Life of a Master of Fiction
Chapter One: From Steppes to Jungles: Emilio Salgari's Planetary Adventure Novels
Chapter Two: The Tigers of Mompracem: An Epic of Resistance in Borneo
Chapter Three: The Mysteries of the Black Jungle: The Creation of an Italian/Indian Imaginary
Chapter Four: Il Corsaro Nero: Love and Vengeance in the Caribbean
Chapter Five: Emilio's Legacy: Deconstructing the Canon of Literary Studies

About the author

Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato, PhD, is an independent scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781683934080
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-408-0
• No. of pages: 442
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 864 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies