(Peri)urban Crossings: Geoliterary Paths and Spatial Practices in Contemporary Italian ‘Territorial Prose’ | Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on Urban Space – International Conference | Università degli Studi di Firenze, 206 (original) (raw)

The ongoing reconfiguration of Italian cities calls for an interdisciplinary approach that can offer a more complex, ‘mobile’ rather than ‘static’ understanding of the city (Ash and Thrift, 2002). Starting from a cross-border geoliterary perspective, my analysis refers both to the concept of the ‘novel-geographer’ by geographer Marc Brosseau (1995), and to Bertrand Westphal’s geocritical approach (2009) to interpret the ‘territorial prose’ by many Italian writers as a way to understand and (re)inhabit contemporary (peri)urban spaces...