Then: The early 2000s as crisis years in which the positive image of Naples is erased, replaced by Gamorra war between 2003 and 2005, coupled with the urban waste crisis. Naples returns to negative media attention and sparks moral panic at EU level at Italy’s lack of ability to control crime.
Then: The early 2000s as crisis years in which the positive image of Naples is erased, replaced by Gamorra war between 2003 and 2005, coupled with the urban waste crisis. Naples returns to negative media attention and sparks moral panic at EU level at Italy’s lack of ability to control crime.
Her research aims to:
Provide an overview of Neapolitan cultural production
Study cultural corpus as intellectual and psychological responses to realities
Situate contemporary discourses in relation to historical ones
Analyse Naples as a barometer of Italy’s general modernity and wellbeing
Bring Naples into national discourses in terms of national and local questions
Examine Naples as a post-colonial city; whether it shares aspects with other cities, whether it can be categorised into post colonial framework.
So the draft outline is as follows:
Part 1: 1980 earthquake and its impact
Part 2: Neapolitan renaissance and discontents—nostalgia as a critique
Part 3: The Post-renaissance crisis and its representation
Part 4: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels in terms of presenting a love/ hate relationship with the city
She will be focussing on Italian rather than international representation, for example sources such as exposés in local and national newspapers, and most of the authors she will be looking at are Neapolitan.
CARA MOORE