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Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies--to move past cliche and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia's trafficking, Slow Food's gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites, and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions, but the entire debate on environmental culture Gianni Celati's voicing of unpredictable places / Patrick Barron -- An ecology of voices : the soundscapes of Tuscany's Lunigiana / Almo Farina -- "Birds who speak my dialect" : poetry, birds, and landscape in Andrea Zanzotto / Damiano Benvegnu -- Witnessing the slaughter : human and nonhuman animals in Ivano Ferrari's poetry / Matteo Gilebbi -- Dialogo ergo sum : my pathway into posthumanities / Roberto Marchesini -- Italo Calvino and the landscapes of the anthropocene : a narrative stratigraphy / Serenella Iovino -- Resisting erasure : landscape, folklife, and ethics in the Calabrian and Arbereshe novels of Carmine Abate / Viktor Berberi -- Terra in Dino Buzzati's fantastic landscapes / Serena Ferrando -- Aeropittura : modern aviation and the fascist idealization of the Italian landscape / Sophia Maxine Farmer -- On places and looking : Italy's silent epiphanies / Franco Arminio -- Thinking like a parasite : malaria, plasmodium, and Sardinia's extraordinary longevity / Marcus Hall -- Ascending underground : an ecocritical way through the Susa Valley / Luca Bugnone -- Thinking on foot in the hydrocarbon sublime : Paolo Sorrentino's petrocultures / Elena Past -- Slow food and terra madre : a conversation with Carlo Petrini on ecology, rural traditions and new food cultures / Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan -- An environmental historian among activists : the political, the personal, and a project of guerrilla narrative / Marco Armiero -- We will not tremble : healing the body politic in post-earthquake Emilia-Romagna / Andrea Hajek -- Thinking through Taranto : toxic embodiment, eco-catastrophe, and the power of narrative / Monica Seger -- Room with a view (of a landfill) : the making of Verdenero / Marco Moro -- This nostrum that is neither sea nor remedy : Mediterranean re-visions / Pasquale Verdicchio -- Eco-futurism nature, matter, and body in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Enrico Cesaretti -- Nature's creative balance : on Italian eco-art / Andrea Lerda -- Walking roots : knitting past and future through Italy's woods / Tiziano Fratus -- Afterword : the proper study of the humanities is no longer "man" / Rosi Braidotti
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