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Italian Science Fiction

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This chapter defines the book’s key themes and terms and outlines its structure. It argues that as science fiction (sf) as a genre has significantly changed throughout history, the definition of the Other in Italian history has also changed, produced from and alongside these fictional representations. This chapter also maintains that science fiction’s minor role in the Italian literary canon made it possible for the genre to focus on forgotten or marginalized historical events, such as colonialism. The chronological structure of the book will then be discussed, and the science-fiction works analyzed within a broader social, political, and literary context.

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Notes

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    See Buzzati (1960), Calvino (2009), Levi (2015), and Volponi (1978). Calvino’s Complete Cosmicomic Series (2009) includes the Italian volumes Le Cosmicomiche [Cosmicomics] (1965), Ti con zero [Ti with Zero] (1967), La memoria del mondo e altre storie cosmicomiche [The Memory of the World and Other Cosmicomic Stories] (1968), and Cosmicomiche vecchie e nuove [Old and New Cosmicomics] (1984). The first volume of The Complete Works of Primo Levi (2015) includes two collections of sf short stories: Storie Naturali [Natural Histories] (1979 [1966]), which he wrote under the pseudonym Damiano Malabaila, and Vizio di Forma [Flaw of Form] (1971). Gianfranco de Turris’s anthology Le aereonavi dei Savoia [Savoia’s Airplanes] (2001) includes short stories by other canonized Italian authors, including Massimo Bontempelli, Luigi Capuana, and Guido Gozzano. On the relevance of the utopic and dystopic themes and tropes in works by prominent Italian authors of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Edoardo Sanguineti, and Paolo Volponi, see Fioretti (2017).

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    See, for instance, Avati’s Zeder (1983); Blasetti’s Racconti di fantascienza [Science Fiction Tales] (1979); Cavani’s I cannibali [The Year of the Cannibal] (1970); Ferreri’s Il seme dell’uomo [The Seed of Man] (1969); Petri’s La decima vittima [The Tenth Victim] (1965); and Salvatores’s Nirvana (1997).

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    For a general history of Italian colonialism, see Del Boca (1976–1984), and Labanca (2002). Edited volumes about Italian colonialism include Ben-Ghiat and Fuller (2005), Simone Brioni and Gulema (2018), Calchi Novati (2011), Carangiu and Negash (2007), Dirar et al. (2011), and Palumbo (2003). On colonialism in Libya, see Ahmida (1994), (2005), Baldinetti (2014), Del Boca (2007), Spadaro (2012), and Proglio (2017). On colonialism in Eritrea, see Iyob (1995), Negash (1987), Taddia (1986), and Trevaskis (1960). On colonialism in Ethiopia, see Bottoni (2008), and Larebo Haile (1994). On colonialism in Somalia and the Italian Trusteeship administration, see respectively Hess (1966) and Morone (2011). On the legacy and memory of Italian colonialism, see Andall and Duncan (2005), (2011), Deplano and Pes (2014), and Lombardi-Diop and Romeo (2012a). On the Tianjin concession, see Shirley Ann Smith (2012). On the Italian expansion in the Balkans, see Rodogno (2003).

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    On the US influence on Italian politics and society at the end of World War II, see Harper (1986), Hughes (1979), Kogan (1981), and Miller (1986).

  5. 5.

    Following the recommendation of the Council of Europe and the In Other WORDS project—Web Observatory & Review for Discrimination Alerts & Stereotypes, I use the noun “Rom” (plural: “Roma”) and the adjective “Roma,” except when I refer to “Romani” language and culture (2012). I use this term for the sake of convenience, but I am aware that there is no agreement about the use of this term to indicate all Roma people (Marushiakova and Popov 2001: 52).

    The term “Roma” has been preferred to the slur “Gypsy”—even if it would be a direct translation of Aldani’s term for this group of people—following Federico Faloppa’s analysis of the negative connotation that the latter term has in the Italian language (2014), and his criticism of Guido Ceronetti’s article “Zingari, non Rom. Appello di un linguista disperato” [Call Them Gypsies Rather than Roma. The Plea of a Desperate Linguist] (2014). I also avoid the use of the word “nomads,” which Roma are called, because 97% of them are sedentary (European Roma Right Center 2014: 3), and this term was used to deny them refugee status from Kosovo in 1999 (Sigona 2002: 32–34).

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Brioni, S., Comberiati, D. (2019). Introduction. In: Italian Science Fiction. Studies in Global Science Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19326-3_1

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