Emilio Salgari

The Tiger Is Still Alive!

Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato (Author)

Emilio Salgari

The Tiger Is Still Alive!

Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato (Author)

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Who created the most famous Southeast Asian hero during the heyday of imperialism and colonialism? Who inaugurated with The Mysteries of the Black Jungle over a century long link uniting the Italian imaginary to the Indian one? Who envisioned the most celebrated interracial love stories of world literature, those between Sandokan, leader of the Tigers of Mompracem, and Marianna, the Pearl of Labuan, between Tremal-Naik, the Bengali snake catcher, and Ada, the Virgin of Kali’s temple at the time of the British Raj? Who defined the Caribbean as a symbolic trope of plunder and rebellion through the melancholic viewpoint of the Black Corsair and the forsaken love for his enemy’s daughter? Who created Yanez de Gomera, a most famous Portuguese hero, and the imperfect voice of white anti-colonialism?
It was Italy’s great adventure novelist, Emilio Salgari (Verona, 1862 – Turin, 1911). From the Mahdi’s revolt in Sudan to the African slave trade, from the Philippine insurgency to the Mediterranean at war between Turks and Christians, and to ancient Egypt, Salgari’s breath-taking plots, together with his indigenous heroes and heroines in Vietnam, Thailand, Venezuela, Arctic Canada, the American Far West, the Chinese diaspora, deeply challenge canonical colonialist representations by contemporary Victorian authors like Conrad, Kipling, and Forster.

Introduction: “I Say Farewell to You by Breaking My Pen:” The Short (Un)happy Life of a Master of Fiction
Chapter One: From Steppes to Jungles: Emilio Salgari’s Planetary Adventure Novels
Chapter Two: The Tigers of Mompracem: An Epic of Resistance in Borneo
Chapter Three: The Mysteries of the Black Jungle: The Creation of an Italian/Indian Imaginary
Chapter Four: Il Corsaro Nero: Love and Vengeance in the Caribbean
Chapter Five: Emilio’s Legacy: Deconstructing the Canon of Literary Studies

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Published	Jun 05 2024
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	442
ISBN	9781683934080
Imprint	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Illustrations	26 BW Photos
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Series	The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Paola Irene Galli Mastrodonato

Galli Mastrodonato’s monograph is an extraordinary work, written with extraordinary passion and no less extraordinary competence, destined to remain a reference text for anyone dealing with Emilio Salgari and his role in Italian modern letters. It is also a work which conclusively proves that Emilio Salgari has not only been the major Italian author of adventure fiction, worth to be included in the Pantheon of “high literature”, but also an absolutely unique example of a counter-Orientalist fiction-writer in the age of triumphant imperialism.

Michelguglielmo Torri, University of Turin, Polish Journal of English Studies
If a writer like Emilio Salgari could offer us something beyond the prevailing worldview of his era, we should have confidence that our own epoch has-and will continue to produce-progressive, visionary writers. In this sense, the resisting tiger will always live on, as Galli Mastrodonato's lengthy labour of love compels us to believe.

Cha Journal