Isolanità. Per una semiotica culturale delle isole / Islandness. Toward a Cultural Semiotics of Islands

Sedda F.;Sorrentino P.

2020-01-01

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Abstract

Saying "island" seems to imply a sense of closure, objectification, naturalness, synthesized by the concept of insularity. This volume of semiotics of cultures, on the other hand, seeks to capture the subjectivity of islands and of those who populate them. To do this, the volume weaves connections between myth and history, utopia and dystopia, metaphor and models, imagination and theory; between semiotics, nyssology, anthropology, philosophy, mediology, cultural studies. Speaking of islandness therefore means contributing to emancipating the study of islands from a reductivistic conception, showing all the archipelagic richness of relationships and identifications that they preserve in their history, in their present, in their aspirations.