Chapter 8 “Rome was in ruins”: Transatlantic Urbanism in Heller’s Catch-22

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Identity, Memory, and Contestation in Europe 1
4. Politics, Philosophy, and Sociology
5. Yet Another American Exceptionalism: The Minor Role of Counter-Cosmopolitan Fan Behaviour in North American Venues Compared to Their Salient Quotidian Existence in Europe’s Soccer Stadiums 17
6. French Jewish Identity, 1898–1931: The Story of Edmond Fleg 39
7. The Legal Culture of Civilization: Hegel and His Categorization of Indigenous Americans 55
8. Retrospective, Myth, and the Colonial Question: Twentieth-Century Europe as the Other in World History 81
9. Gender Equality Identity in Europe: The Role of the EU 103
10. The Emptiness of European Identity and the Discourse on Turkish EU Membership 125
11. Memory and Identity in Europe
12. Diversity in the Homeland: The Changing Meaning of Transylvania in Mihail Sebastian’s The Accident 147
13. “Rome was in ruins”: Transatlantic Urbanism in Heller’s Catch-22 157
14. Postcards from Europe: Representations of (Western) Europe in Romanian Travel Writing, 1960–2010 175
15. On the Ruins of Memory in Miron Białoszewski’s A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising 187
16. Geography and Cartography
17. The Dynamics of European Identity: Maps, Bodies, Views 207
18. Neighbourhood Identity and the Larger World: Emir Kusturica’s Underground 227
19. Italian Food on Foreign Tables: Giacomo Castelvetro’s Exile 245
20. Visual Culture and Fashion
21. Mediterranean Seafarings: Pelagic Encounters of Otherness in Contemporary Italian Cinema 255
22. Euro Chic: Fashion’s Bread & Butter 271
23. Dancing Up a Storm: Canadian Performance at the Nazi Olympic Games (1936) and the Notion of Cultural Translation 279
24. Contributors 301
25. Index 307
26. Books in the Cultural Studies Series 314