Mena Mitrano researches the intimate link between Modernism and Theory. She is the author of In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh University Press 2016
"The Mirror of Alienation: T. S. Eliot and the Other Modernity.” In Harbors: Flows and Migratio... more "The Mirror of Alienation: T. S. Eliot and the Other Modernity.” In Harbors: Flows and Migrations of People, Cultures and Ideas. The U. S. A. in/and the World. Eds. Vincenzo Bavaro, Gianna Fusco, Serena Fusco e Donatella Izzo (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) 237-254.
Considering Roberto Esposito's narrative of Italian Theory, according to which Italian Theory fir... more Considering Roberto Esposito's narrative of Italian Theory, according to which Italian Theory first started as a US-based phenomenon and only later irradiated in other parts of the world, this paper explores the consequences of that narrative and the questions that it might raise for American Studies: Might Italian Theory rightfully belong to the Americanist's domain of inquiry? If so, what impact might it have on the identity of the Americanist? What is an Americanist? The paper argues that this new wave of theory illuminates the confluence of American Studies and critical thought, both involved in a simultaneous movement of deterritorialization that pushes them outside their established boundaries.
This is my introduction to the volume The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meaning After Theory... more This is my introduction to the volume The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meaning After Theory (Peter Lang 2009)
"The Mirror of Alienation: T. S. Eliot and the Other Modernity.” In Harbors: Flows and Migratio... more "The Mirror of Alienation: T. S. Eliot and the Other Modernity.” In Harbors: Flows and Migrations of People, Cultures and Ideas. The U. S. A. in/and the World. Eds. Vincenzo Bavaro, Gianna Fusco, Serena Fusco e Donatella Izzo (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) 237-254.
Considering Roberto Esposito's narrative of Italian Theory, according to which Italian Theory fir... more Considering Roberto Esposito's narrative of Italian Theory, according to which Italian Theory first started as a US-based phenomenon and only later irradiated in other parts of the world, this paper explores the consequences of that narrative and the questions that it might raise for American Studies: Might Italian Theory rightfully belong to the Americanist's domain of inquiry? If so, what impact might it have on the identity of the Americanist? What is an Americanist? The paper argues that this new wave of theory illuminates the confluence of American Studies and critical thought, both involved in a simultaneous movement of deterritorialization that pushes them outside their established boundaries.
This is my introduction to the volume The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meaning After Theory... more This is my introduction to the volume The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meaning After Theory (Peter Lang 2009)
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