Cover ; Title page ; Copyright page ; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Notes on format; Foreword; Introduction; DOUBLETAKE GENERATION AND THE SHIMMER OF FRONTIERS; Time and space; Memory and literature; The shimmer of frontiers; Where currents meet; Chapter One; FRONTIERS OF IDENTITY; Fluid identities; Narratives at war; Sloboda: Roots of fluidity; Chapter Two; FRONTIERS OF EMPTINESS; The last barricade; A story in old drawings; Of monsters and men; Memory and emptiness; The nonmissing variable; Chapter Three; FRONTIERS OF LIFE AND DEATH; The Charon hypothesis; The mourning writer; Chapter Four
FRONTIERS OF TRAUMAExpressing the unspeakable; Surviving the unspeakable; Traversing the unspeakable; Writing about the unspeakable; Chapter Five; FRONTIERS OF (IN)SANITY; Monologues of madness; Death, movement, place; CONCLUSION; Primary Sources; Bibliography; Index; back cover
Summary
Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural hybridization
