New book on Mediterranean people and culture now available
Professor and Director of the Mediterranean Studies Program Giovanna Summerfield's new co-edited book, "Unframing and Reframing Mediterranean Spaces and Identities," is now available. Reconsidering the Mediterranean, appreciating and demarginalizing the peoples and cultures of this vast region, while considering the affinities and differences, is a valuable part of the process of unframing and reframing the concept of the Mediterranean. Summerfield and her co-editor Rosario Pollicino follow Franco Cassano’s refusal of a sort of prêt-à-porter reality of cohabitation of cultures, introducing instead un’alternativa mediterranea, a world of multiple cultures that entails an ongoing learning and experiencing.
The volume’s contributors use an interdisciplinary approach that mirrors the hybridity of the area and of the discipline, that is much more introspective and humanistic, more contemporary and inclusive.
The volume is one of the outcomes of Auburn's first Mediterranean Studies Symposium and was published by the internationally renowned publishing house Brill. For more information and to buy the book, visit the publisher’s website.
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