Delirious Naples

A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

Pellegrino D'Acierno and Stanislao G. Pugliese

Pages: 288

Illustrations: 30 Color Illustrations; 28 Black and White Illustrations

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Description

This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresistibly attractive. The essays attempt to give some hints to the answer of the enigma, without parsing it into neat scholastic formulas. In doing this, the book will be an important means of opening Naples to students, scholars and members of the community at large who are engaged in “identity-work.” A primary goal has been to establish a dialogue with leading Neapolitan intellectuals and artists, and, ultimately, ensure that the “deliriously Neapolitan” dance continues.

Author(s)

Stanislao G. Pugliese (Edited By)
Stanislao G. Pugliese is Professor of Modern European History and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. His most recent book is Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone, winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. He is the author of Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall (Fordham).

Pellegrino D'Acierno (Edited By)
Pellegrino D'Acierno is Professor of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface
Returning to the Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte
Theresa Aiello

Foreword
The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples
Pellegrino D’Acierno and Stanislao Pugliese

Introduction
Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse
Pellegrino D’Acierno

LEARNING FROM CONTEMPORARY NAPLES/WRITING AS A NEAPOLITAN

1. Napòlide: A Man Without Naples
Erri de Luca

2. Scuorno (Vergogna)
Francesco Durante

THE VIEW FROM AMERICA

3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide
B. Amore

4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: “Rough Magic” or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore’s Naples/New York Installation
Pellegrino D’Acierno

5. One Early Twenty-First Century Summer in Naples: A Personal Essay
John Domini

6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a “Newpolitan” Approach to Popular Culture
Simona Frasca

7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists
Fred Gardaphé

8. You Want To Be Americano?
Robert Zweig
HISTORY, MEMORY & MERCY

9. Words in Journey: Echoes From Pompeii
Angelo Cannavacciuolo

10. One of These Days
Ilaria Marchesi and Simone Marchesi

11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of South-Centric Cosmopolitanism
Patrizia La Trecchia
12. The Form and Language of the Neapolitan Baroque
Nick Napoli

13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment
Salvatore Napolitano

14. Caravaggio’s Mercy in Naples
Terence Ward

MALANAPOLI: FROM THE LAZARONITUM TO GOMORRAH/CAMORRA

15. Il Paradiso Abitato da Diavoli: Naples as the Obscure Object of Discourse
Pellegrino D’Acierno

16. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet
Jason Pine

17. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story
Valerio Caprara

WRITING & SINGING NAPLES

18. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples?
Andrea Baldi

19. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo’s Beloved Whore
Rose De Angelis

20. Matilde Serao’s Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto
Gabriella Romani

21. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples
Joseph Rescigno

22. Poetry
Charles Sant’Elia

23. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story About Stories
Gioia Timpanelli

OMAGGI, or PAROLE d’AMMORE

24. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard
Joseph Connors and Jonathan Galassi

25. A Tribute to John Turturro’s Passione
Stanislao Pugliese

26. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte
Pellegrino D’Acierno

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