La Collana Il Nuovo Mondo e le sue fonti
The article explores the series Il Nuovo Mondo, published by Morlacchi Editore of Perugia (2006-). The series, directed by Clara Bartocci, is the first easy-access collection of Italian translations of texts from the North American colonial period. It includes some of the most important texts from...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1515 |
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| Summary: | The article explores the series Il Nuovo Mondo, published by Morlacchi Editore of Perugia (2006-). The series, directed by Clara Bartocci, is the first easy-access collection of Italian translations of texts from the North American colonial period. It includes some of the most important texts from the period’s early literature and historiography, some of which are first translations into Italian. The article examines the bibliography of the series alongside the interests and publications of its director. It analyses the interpretive approach employed and heads towards a critique of this perspective through the lens of contemporary Indigenous Studies. The influence of Leslie Fiedler, Giuliano Gliozzi, Stephen Greenblatt, Margaret Hodgen, Jurij Lotman, Giorgio Spini, and Elémire Zolla emerges. Drawing from these sources, and from the tradition of Italian Americanistica, the series takes a perspective that distances itself from the American practice of observing the colonial past ex parte obiecti, in search for local mythographies, and from the Italians’ historical “juridical-ideological-cultural” focus on the British-puritan experience (Sanfilippo 1990). Instead, it searches for a “Literature” within the texts, focusing on a history of ideologies that seeks their roots in Europe at large, while highlighting heterogeneity among different accounts. While drawing from what are now debated theories, such as James Axtell’s ethnohistory, the series offers a still valuable critique of European settlers’ perceptions of indigenous peoples, remaining a viable tool of popularization of these issues. The article includes an extensive bibliography of the sources of the series, which is intended as a tool for further reconstructions of the tradition of Italian Colonial Studies.
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| ISSN: | 2281-4582 |