{"id":171,"date":"2015-03-18T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=171"},"modified":"2015-05-23T06:20:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T06:20:45","slug":"mezzogiorno-life-death-southern-italy-by-david-kerekes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/mezzogiorno-life-death-southern-italy-by-david-kerekes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mezzogiorno: Life. Death. Southern Italy&#8217;, by David Kerekes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No geographical map distinguishes Montefalcione as being different from any number<br \/>\nof isolated mountain villages in southern Italy. It has ancient customs and its own<br \/>\nsaints and feast days, like other villages. Yet Montefalcione in Campania is the setting<br \/>\nfor a unique meditation on family and the Italian Diaspora, reconstructing three<br \/>\ngenerations of village life through myth, superstition, and the anecdotal history of the<br \/>\nauthor&#8217;s own family. Author David Kerekes will read an extract from his novel<br \/>\n<em>Mezzogiorno: Life. Death. Southern Italy<\/em> (Headpress, 2012) and talk a little about its background, and the inspiration to write it.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/2012-Sem-1-Lunchtime-seminars.pdf\">Lunchtime seminars 2012<\/a>\u00a0[PDF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No geographical map distinguishes Montefalcione as being different from any number of isolated mountain villages in southern Italy. It has ancient customs and its own saints and feast days, like other villages. Yet Montefalcione in Campania is the setting for a unique meditation on family and the Italian Diaspora, reconstructing three generations of village life [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/events\/mezzogiorno-life-death-southern-italy-by-david-kerekes\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-lunchtime-seminars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}