Carte Italiane, Volume 11
2015-16 Call for Papers
Graduate Student Journal, Department of Italian, UCLA
La guerra e l’Italia : Italian Identities through War
From the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 C.E. to battles among comuni and Signorie in the Renaissance, to the Risorgimento and its aftermath, through fascism and beyond, war has played a fundamental role in shaping Italy’s national, political, geographic, and artistic landscapes. Italian identity has not only been influenced by wars with external powers, but Italy’s civil wars and internal conflicts have also shaped and been shaped by regional identities.
This issue seeks to examine the experience of war as a seminal factor in the formation of identity in the Italian context and the ways in which this critical and highly complex issue is treated in literature, film, poetry, and theater. Literary and filmic depictions of war and other tumultuous events have created disparate portraits of the Italian national identity. In their search for a specific discourse able to convey the complexity and contradictions of Italian identity, authors and directors have frequently chosen wartime conflict as their subject. Their works often posit identity in terms of a social bonding born from conflict between various factions within a community—local, regional, or national.
Possible avenues of inquiry include:
- War and Italian identities in the arts: literary references to war, its representations and perceptions; Italian identities through war in cinema, newsreels, and documentary films; war and Italian identities in theater and opera.
- War and gender: the role of women on and off the battlefield, as well as their role in the construction of an Italian identity during war; women’s identities shaped by war; war and male bonding; queer identities and war.
- War and Italian history: The Risorgimento and its representative or iconic figures; Italian perceptions of and reactions to the Napoleonic Wars.
- War, ideologies, and ethics: Fascism and its role in the construction of a national identity through war; calls to arms and interventionist propaganda; fratricidal wars; Italian imperialism and colonial wars; war and racial identity; wartime massacres and the work of memory and identification; the ethical stakes and political ramifications of war; pacifism and identity-formation; war monuments and memorials and national identity; Italy’s European identity and multinational interventions in war zones.
- War and Italian identities from abroad: foreign intellectuals who fight in or recounted Italian wars; perceptions of Italy and Italian conflicts from abroad; soldiers and identity; soldiers’ songs in tragic or comical contexts.
- War and religions: Muslim wars in relation to the invasion of Sicily and the creation of a regional identity; the Crusades and Italian religious identity.
We welcome papers in English and Italian from all disciplines, including but not limited to Art History, Classics, Comparative Literatures, Environmental Studies, Film and Media Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Italian Studies, Linguistics, Migration Studies, Musicology, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and Translation Studies.
Papers must be accompanied by an abstract of approximately 250 words and a short biographical statement. Please upload articles, abstracts, and key words directly onto the journal site at http://escholarship.org/. The abstract should also include: title of the proposed article, name of the author, institutional and departmental affiliation, and current contact information.
Follow the instructions below to submit a manuscript to Carte Italiane.
- Log onto http://www.escholarship.org/uc/italian_ucla_carteitaliane
- Once you are on the Carte Italiane site select “submit article” from the menu on the left side of the page.
- Follow ALL submission prompts and guidelines.
- Please follow all steps closely and COMPLETE THE KEY-WORD SECTION. The key words will result in more hits for your article once published!
All submissions must follow the updated formatting guidelines found on Carte Italiane’s Escholarship page (from the menu on the left side of the page.) It is imperative that all submissions adhere to these guidelines. Papers that do not comply with the publication and submission guidelines will not be considered for review.
Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2015.
We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please contact us if you have any questions
Sincerely,
Viola Ardeni
Editor-In-Chief
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