National Identity in the Global World: the Italian Case
Examines national identity in a globalized world through Italian literature, focusing on migration, modern/contemporary history, and rhetorical devices in novels, poems, and manifestoes.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 3.74 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=269 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Recognize and identify different literary genres (novel and different subgenres within that genre; poetry and different forms, from closed forms such as a sonnet to free verse; avant-garde manifestoes and their innovative rhetoric).
Recognize and identify literature of the different periods considered in the course, from Romanticism to modernism, from avant-garde to post-modernism, while reading Italian literature written in a variety of literary genres (especially novels, but also poems and short stories).
Reflect on major themes and issues related to national identity through literary forms, while focusing on the Italian situation since Risorgimento and until today, with a necessary observation of what historically happens in those two centuries.
Reflect on the necessary intersections of several disciplines in the humanities such as history, political science, international studies, while the focus remains on the Italian context and the situations in that country are inserted in a larger and global perspective.
Understand the exchange among several disciplines (arts, history, philosophy, political science) and the relevance they have in their autonomy and in relation to one another in the several historical and literary contexts that Italy lived through in the context of Europe and even in the global context, as we approach World War II and our contemporary times.
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2011: 3.74 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=269 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.84 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).
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Topics
- National identity, globalization, and migration in the Italian context from Risorgimento to present.
- Analysis of Italian literary genres including epistolary/historical novels, avant-garde manifestoes, and poetry across Romanticism to Post-modernism.
Skills
- Analyze literary texts using theoretical tools for interpretation and recognize various Italian literary genres and periods.
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