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): Pellegrino D'Acierno, Stanislao G. Pugliese
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: New York
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Delirious Naples
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CONTENTS
Foreword. Returning to The Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte
Preface. The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples
Introduction: Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse
Learning from Contemporary Naples/Writing as a Neapolitan
1. Napòlide: A Man without Naples
2. Scuorno (Vergogna)
The View from America
3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide
4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: “Rough Magic”; or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore’s Naples/ New York Installation
5. One Early Twenty-First Century Summer in Naples
6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a “Newpolitan” Approach to Popular Culture
7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists
8. You Want to Be Americano?
History, Memory, and Mercy
9. Words in Journey: Echoes from Pompeii
10. One of These Days
11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of Southcentric Cosmopolitanism
12. The Delirium of the Neapolitan Baroque
13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment
14. Caravaggio’s Mercy in Naples
Malanapoli: From the Lazaronitum to Gomorrah/Camorra
15. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet
16. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story
Writing and Singing Naples
17. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples?
18. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo’s Beloved Whore
19. Matilde Serao’s Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto
20. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples
21. Poetry
22. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story about Stories
Omaggi, or Parole d’Ammore
23. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard
24. A Tribute to John Turturro’s Passione
25. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
