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Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination - Couverture souple

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Carbone, Marco Benoît

 
9781350194656: Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination
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ISBN 10 : 1350194654 ISBN 13 : 9781350194656
Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Synopsis

Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey, Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical and ethnographic treatment of how places defined in public imagination and media by their associated histories become sites of memory and identity, as their landscape and mythologies turn into insignia of a romanticised antiquity. For the ancient Greeks, Homer had set the marine monsters of the Odyssey in the Strait between Calabria and Sicily. Since then, this passage has been glowing with the aura of its mythological landmarks. Travellers and tourists have played Odysseus by re-enacting his journey. Scholars and explorers have explained the myths as metaphors of whirlpools and marine fauna. The iconic Strait and village of Scilla have turned into place-myths and playgrounds, defined by the region's heritage. Carbone observes the enduring impact of Hellas on the real Strait today. The continuous rekindling of cultural and visual traditions of place in the arts, media, travel, and tourism have intersected with philhellenic historiographies, shaping local policies, public histories, views of development, and forms of Hellenicist identitarianism. Elements of society have celebrated the landscape of the Odyssey, appropriated Homer as their imagined heirs, and purported themselves as the original Europeans–pandering to outdated ideological appropriations of 'classical' antiquity and exclusionary, West-centric views of the Mediterranean.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marco Benoît Carbone is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Brunel University, UK. He has received his PhD and worked as a Teaching Assistant at University College London, UK. He specialises in ethnographic methods of social research.

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Academic
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1350194654
ISBN 13 
9781350194656
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
274
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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