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Focusing on three transnational writers in Italy and their respective relocation trilogies - Frances Mayes, Annie Hawes, and Tim Parks - the study examines the process of identity reconstruction through sustained engagement with foreign place and place-based practices.
List of contents
Acknowledgements.................................................................................
Introduction..........................................................................................
Chapter 1 - Relocation Narratives Made in Italy.............................
Emplacement abroad..........................................................................
Locating relocation writing................................................................
The subjective quest...........................................................................
Chapter 2 - Transnational Lifestyles in the Late Twentieth Century..................................................................................................
Lifestyle migration.............................................................................
The rural idyll.....................................................................................
Colonial and cosmopolitan orientations.............................................
Chapter 3 - Frances Mayes and the Tuscan Dream....................................
Bramasole - a ruin with a view..........................................................
Tuscan foodways and homemaking...................................................
Timeless Tuscans and Tuscany..........................................................
Chapter 4 - Annie Hawes on Liguria.................................................
A tourist's gaze...................................................................................
Deep immersion in everyday life.......................................................
Ligurians, Italians, and Others..................................................................
Chapter 5 - Tim Parks on Verona and Beyond................................
Italian neighbours...............................................................................
Italian lessons.....................................................................................
Community and conviviality ..............................................................
Conclusion.............................................................................................
References............................................................................................... Index.......................................................................................................
About the author
Lynn Mastellotto is Assistant Professor of English Language, Linguistics and Translation at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. Her research focuses on identity in narrative discourse, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in cultural theory, multimodal communication, and intermediality in translation. Informed by an interdisciplinary approach that draws on linguistics, cultural studies, and literary criticism, her research explores how ideas and words cross geographical, linguistic, cultural, disciplinary and code boundaries.
Summary
Focusing on three transnational writers in Italy and their respective relocation trilogies – Frances Mayes, Annie Hawes, and Tim Parks – the study examines the process of identity reconstruction through sustained engagement with foreign place and place-based practices.
