Acknowledgements
Introduction: Telling Matters
1. Modernist Matters
2. Oil - Slick Territories: Petroculture Italian Style
3. Apua Ma(t)ter: Narratives of Marble
4. Steel & Asbestos: Brutta Tuscany and Beyond: Stories of Toxic Lands and Bodies
5. Cement & Asphalt: Geographies of Environmental Disruption in Modern Italy
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Enrico Cesaretti is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies, coedited with Serenella Iovino and Elena Past.
“Sulfur, rocks, oil, marble, asbestos, cement, and steel are the
involuntary storytellers of this beautiful and
yet conflicted country, ridden with industrial
mismanagement, environmental injustice, and the fragility of
landscapes and ecosystems. . . . Enrico Cesaretti has
provided a landmark contribution to ecocriticism,
environmental humanities, and Italian studies.”—Serenella
Iovino, author of Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance,
and Liberation
“Elemental Narratives is an engaging and well-written manuscript
that makes an important contribution to the expanding field of
ecocritical Italian Studies, particularly in light of the ‘material
turn’ of recent years. Cesaretti addresses a wide range of
interesting primary sources that have thus far received little
scholarly attention.”—Monica Seger, author of Landscapes in
Between: Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and
Film
“Cesaretti’s seminal work positions itself not only within Italian
studies, but also, and foremost, within the field of ecocriticism.
It is deeply grounded in ecomaterialist theories, environmental
humanities, and posthumanism, while also questioning
anthropocentrism and essentialism.”—C. De Santi Choice
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