Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. Bordighera Press announces the publication of DISCOURSE BOUNDARY CREATION (LOGOS TOPOS POIESIS) edited by Peter Carravetta. This publication includes proceedings from a Forum in Italian American Criticism (FIAC) conference entitled "Logos, Nomos, Poiesis: A Festschrift," in honor of Paolo Valesio on his 70th birthday. These proceedings include essays and testimonials by Gian Maria Annovi, Teodolinda Barolini, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Patrizio Ceccagnoli, Andrea Ciccarelli, Luigi Fontanella, Erin Larkin, Ernesto Livorni, Mario Moroni,...

Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. This book contains the collected essays originating from a two-day conference at Stony Brook University. The conference aimed at charting various itineraries through little explored clusters of what we can rightly call "Italies," in the plural, and which have existed within and outside of the nation-state called Italy. These Italies are not to be understood solely in terms of circumscribed socio-geographical sites as colonies, professional settlements, or ethnic enclaves though these of course have been and continue to be the source of...