Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword. Returning to The Broken Fountain: Omaggio a Thomas Belmonte ix
4. Preface. The Irresolvable Paradox: Essaying Naples xiii
5. Introduction: Naples as Chaosmos or, The City That Makes You Repeat Its Discourse 1
6. Learning from Con temporary Naples/Writing as a Neapolitan
7. 1. Napòlide: A Man without Naples 35
8. 2. Scuorno (Vergogna) 54
9. The View from America
10. 3. Naples/New York: Across the Watery Divide 71
11. 4. Auratic Detritus/Sublime Trash: “Rough Magic”; or, The Art of Transfiguration in B. Amore’s Naples/ New York Installation 77
12. 5. One Early TwentyFirst Century Summer in Naples 97
13. 6. Investigating Gilda Mignonette as a “Newpolitan” Approach to Popular Culture 120
14. 7. Go Make Naples: New Perspectives from Italian American Artists 133
15. 8. You Want to Be Americano? 141
16. History, Memory, and Mercy
17. 9. Words in Journey: Echoes from Pompeii 151
18. 10. One of These Days 157
19. 11. Mediterranean Crossroads: Naples as a Model of Southcentric Cosmopolitanism 172
20. 12. The Delirium of the Neapolitan Baroque 190
21. 13. The Sansevero Chapel: A Case Study of the Neapolitan Enlightenment 204
22. 14. Caravaggio’s Mercy in Naples 224
23. Malanapoli: From the Lazaronitum to Gomorrah/Camorra
24. 15. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Meet 243
25. 16. Gomorrah: The Rest of the Story 269
26. Writing and Singing Naples
27. 17. Anna Maria Ortese: Breaking the Spell of Naples? 283
28. 18. Filumena Marturano: Eduardo De Filippo’s Beloved Whore 301
29. 19. Matilde Serao’s Art of Numbers: Naples and the Game of Lotto 322
30. 20. Opera and the Classical Tradition in Naples 339
31. 21. Poetry 347
32. 22. Evoking Naples in a Story and a Story about Stories 351
33. Omaggi, or Parole d’Ammore
34. 23. Tributes to Shirley Hazzard 367
35. 24. A Tribute to John Turturro’s Passione 370
36. 25. A Celluloid Tribute to Thomas Belmonte 376
37. Acknowledgments 381
38. List of Contributors 385