ID Scheda #9703
- Sezione
- Critica
- Tipo di risorsa
- articolo su periodico culturale
- Autore
- Gallo, Domenico
- Titolo
- Fantascienza Outside the Ghetto. The Science-Fictional Writings of Italian Mainstream Authors
- Titolo del periodico
- Science Fiction Studies
- Specifiche del periodico
- 42
- Data di pubblicazione
- luglio 2015
- Pagine
- 251-273
- Lingua
- inglese
- Paese di pubblicazione
- Stati Uniti
- Abstract
- Some of the most important specimens of twentieth-century Italian sf, written by such prestigious mainstream authors as Italo Calvino, Mario Soldati, Ennio Flaiano, Corrado Alvaro, and others, were not published by specialized presses or sf magazines; they were presented as narrativa (fiction) without genre attributes, though they undoubtedly belong to sf. The reasons for this production and circulation of sf outside the "ghetto" have to do with specific aspects of Italian history and culture, which are discussed in the first part of this article. An overview of sf written by authors who are not usually tied to the genre follows, in an attempt to explain how these novels and stories relate to the problematic issue of scientific-technological imagination in Italy from 1900 to the early 1980s and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Science Fiction Studies is the property of SF-TH, Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)