{"product_id":"9783032406125","title":"Fernanda Pivano and the Translation of American Counterculture Female Agency, Cultural Mediation, and the Beat Generation in Postwar Italy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eItalian and Italian American Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eFernanda Pivano and the Translation of American Counterculture\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFemale Agency, Cultural Mediation, and the Beat Generation in Postwar Italy\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAndrea Romanzi\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ European \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Fernanda Pivano’s pivotal role in fostering literary and cultural exchange between the United States and Italy after World War II. It provides a richly documented exploration of her collaboration with Allen Ginsberg, showing how their relationship reshaped the Italian literary and cultural landscape through the mediation of Beat literature. Drawing extensively on previously unexplored archival materials from Italy and the United States, the study traces Pivano’s professional journey from her early postwar translations to her instrumental role in publishing landmark anthologies such as\u003cem\u003e Poesia degli ultimi americani\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJukebox all’idrogeno\u003c\/em\u003e. It reveals how her mediation expanded the Italian canon, introduced countercultural voices to new audiences, and challenged traditional structures within the publishing world. Rather than merely offering a biographical narrative, the book examines how translation, collaboration, and publishing practices intersected to drive cultural transformation. It brings to light the hidden networks and personal negotiations that enabled American countercultural literature to circulate across national and linguistic borders. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrea Romanzi \u003c\/strong\u003eis Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures at the University of Milan, Italy. His research brings together literary history, translation studies, and cultural sociology, with an emphasis on gender, mediation, and the microdynamics of transatlantic literary exchange. In 2019, he won the Bodini Prize for Best Emerging Translator in Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13 March 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032406125\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53983089721484,"sku":"9783032406125","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032406125.jpg?v=1787745357","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032406125","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}