Skip to content
Home/ Naples and the Nation: Image, Media and Culture in the Second Republic
Naples and the Nation: Image, Media and Culture in the Second Republic

Naples and the Nation: Image, Media and Culture in the Second Republic

by Glynn, Ruth
No customer reviews yet ISBN 9783031801600

This book addresses Naples' relationship with Italy, since the introduction of direct mayoral election in 1993 and as articulated in cultural production. It deploys theoretical frameworks pertaining to postcolonialism and cultural accentedness to challenge the historical framing of Naples as Italy's internal 'other' and to reposition the city at the very heart of the Italian cultural imaginary. The book showcases the breadth of texts and media addressing the city-nation relationship, analysing less renowned works of journalism, literature, fashion and film alongside celebrated texts such as Roberto Saviano's Gomorra, Elena Ferrante's 'Neapolitan Novels' and the soap opera Un posto al sole. It highlights how such works contest perceptions of Naples as diverging from a national norm by emphasising the continuities that align the city with the nation. Though developed with the specificities of Naples in mind, the approach is intended as a model for the study of city-nation relations in other cultural contexts.

About the author

Product details

Pub dateMay 22, 2026
ISBN-103031801601
ISBN-139783031801600
LanguageEnglish
Last updated 2026-07-28 12:16
$166.61
In stock soon — order now to reserve your copy
Delivery by Monday, September 14, 2026
Qty
Sign in to Add to Saved list
Free delivery on orders over $35.
15-day returns. Any reason.
Secure checkout. We never store card details.

Readers who bought this also bought

More from Social Science | Cultural & Ethnic Studies | European Studies
See all
Climate Obstruction Across Europe
Climate Obstruction Across Europe
$38.70
Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth
<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 produced not only military and humanitarian responses but also scholarly and artistic ones from Ukrainians looking to the future of their country. <p/><i>Terra Invicta</i> is a series of critical and creative articulations of pasts, presents, and possible futures involving humans and the more-than-human world. The authors suggest that Ukraine is caught in an environmental war, waged by a fossil-fuel superpower against people who are prepared to lay down their lives to protect their land. This volume explores the relationship between Ukrainians - a multiethnic and multireligious people with a complicated history - and the Ukrainian land, the <i>zemlia</i> to which they belong. Themes include decoloniality, ecocultural identity, the politics of reconstruction, and artistic responsibility amid a war for national survival. Contributors emphasize the value of reviving multispecies relations with the land, positively transforming multicultural relations with history, and reinvigorating grassroots engagements with the state and society. <p/><i>Terra Invicta</i> grapples with the role of artistic expression in the face of war and collective loss and what it means to commit to a place, a land, a territory, in a world set in constant motion.</p>
$43.57
Lives Altered by War: Civilian Volunteering Amid the Donbas War in Ukraine
Stepaniuk, Nataliia
$39.53
Predicament of Privilege: Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture
Sharma, Devika
$127.35
Predicament of Privilege: Inequality and Ambivalence in Contemporary Scandinavian Culture
Sharma, Devika
$36.69
Rural Identities: Ethnicity and Community in the Contemporary English Countryside
Neal, Sarah
$65.78