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The Center for Italian Studies The Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania
present the Spring Research Seminar Series:
You Can Never Go Home Again: Myth and Identity Loss in Cesare Pavese's La luna e i falò Juliet Nusbaum Columbia University
Monday, March 2 5:30 pm Cherpack Lounge 543 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania
Juliet writes: “My dissertation, entitled Un paese di bastardi: Myth, Identity and Rootlessness in Cesare Pavese's Works and Context, situates careful analysis of Pavese’s writing within a cultural studies framework. It explores how themes of myth and rootlessness in his writing relate to the creation of a national Italian identity from the 1930s–1950. My research analyzes how Pavese uses these themes as a way to explore Italian identity, themes whose meaning was intensified by the use of myth and landscape in Fascism’s rhetoric of italianità. I also explore how the problems of loss and rootlessness influence his treatment of American literature and the image of America. In my presentation, I focus on the fourth and final chapter of my dissertation; it follows the threads of myth and identity in Pavese’s work to explore a single case in depth: La luna e i falò.”
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