摘要：Almost a decade ago, upon discussing the question of the study of multiculturalism in Italy, Mario Materassi stressed the literary nature of American studies in this country and added that most academic members of the Italian Association of North American Studies (AISNA) taught American literature as part of the offerings of the English or the modern languages departments. He also pointed out, besides the impact of “prevailing generational ideologies” upon Italian research, “the peculiar role that Italian specialists in the non-mainstream aspects of American culture can play within the large picture of American studies, vis-à-vis today's push toward national or group self-affirmation.” (American Quarterly, 48.1, March 1996). Today things have become different : the 2003 AISNA Conference held in Rome, “Ambassadors. American Studies in a Changing World” has updated the picture with the offer of an overview of Italian approaches to American studies.
关键词：E.A. Poe; Ezra Pound; William Faulkner; Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson; ralph Waldo Emerson; Mario Materassi; Franco Moretti; Donatella Izzo; Giorgio Mariani; Gayatri Spivak; Agostino Lombardo; Alfredo Rizzardi; Lalli Biancamaria Tedeschini; Rolando Anzilotti; Sergio Perosa; Alessandro Portelli; Salvatore Proietti; Sara Antonelli; Paola Zaccaria; Mario Corona; Nick Ceramella; Giuseppe Massara; Paola Boi; Maria Giulia Fabi; Biasio Giordano Di; Elena Mortara; Michele Bottalico; Luigi Sampietro; Gabriella Morisco; Laura Coltelli; Caterina Ricciardi; Marina Camboni; Edith Wharton; Gianfranca Balestra; H.D.; Bianca Tarozzi; Liana Borghi; Cristina Giorcelli; Margaret Fuller; Jack Kerouac; James Baldwin; Paul Bowles; Gigliola Nocera; Massimo Bacigulpo; Pierangelo Castagneto; William Boelhower; Anna Scacchi; Andrea Mariani; Mario Maffi; Rosella Mamoli Zorzi; Roberto Cagliero; Lanati Barbara; Marisa Bulgheroni; T.S. Eliot; W.C. Williams; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Allen Ginsberg; Kenneth Patchen; Denise Levertov; Gregory Corso; Frank O’Hara; Robert Lowell; Mina Loy; Adrienne Rich; John Ashbery; Charles Wright; Anne Waldman; Maria Anita Stefanelli; Stephen Crane; Thomas Wolfe; Loreto Sonia Di; Carlo Martinez; Anna Scannavini; Igina Tattoni; Biancamaria Pisapia; M. Faraone; M. Melloni; Giuseppe Nori; Herman Melville; Henry James; Ugo Rubeo; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Angelis Valerio Massimo De; Henry David Thoreau; Alessandro Clericuzio; Ernest Hemingway; Philip K. Dick; John Barth; Raymond Carver; Paul Auster; Lillo Don De; Franco Minganti; Stefano Rosso; Eugene O’Neill; Arthur Miller; Tennessee Williams; Sam Shepard; David Mamet; Mirella Vallone; Alide Cagidemetrio; Stefania Piccinato; Algerina Neri; Flannery O’Connor; Marianne Moore; Pedro Pietri; Mary Caponegro; (D’) Maria Vittoria Amico
