Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: Memory as Cultural Transmission 1. Calvino, Eco and the Transmission of World Literature, Martin McLaughlin 2. Montale's Xenia: Between Myth and Poetic Tradition, Adele Bardazzi 3. Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia's The Woman of Rome, Charles L. Leavitt IV 4. Reconstructing the Maternal: Transmission of Memory, Cultural Translation and Transnational Identity in Igiaba Scego's La mia casa e dove sono, Maria Cristina Seccia Section II: Trauma and Divided Memory 5. At the Edge. Divided Memory on Italy's Borders. The Case of Trieste and the Foibe di Basovizza, John Foot 6. Remembering War. Memory and History in Claudio Magris's Blameless, Sandra Parmegiani 7. Blood, Sand and Stone: Trieste's Transcultural Memories, Katia Pizzi 8. The Trauma of Liberation: Rape, Love and Violence in Wartime Italy, David W. Ellwood 9. Between Past and Present, Self and Other: Liminality and the Transmission of Traumatic Memory in Elena Ferrante's La figlia oscura, Torunn Haaland Section III: Memory as Nostalgia 10. Mother-Daughter Nostalgia in the Abruzzi of Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Patrizia Sambuco 11. A Future Without Nostalgia. Remembering Second-Wave Feminism in Mia madre femminista and Fra me e te, Andrea Hajek 12. Transnational Nostalgia in an All-Female Italian Facebook Group and Cooking Blog, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra About the Contributors
