Hugo Pratt and Milo Manara’s Indian Summer: An Italian “Source” for The Scarlet Letter

• Authors: Giorgio Mariani
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Giorgio MarianiUniversità “Sapienza” di RomaItalyHugo Pratt’s and Milo Manara’s Indian Summer: An Italian “Source” for The Scarlet LetterThis paper examines the allusions of Milo Manara’s and Hugo Pratt’s graphic novel, Tutto ricominciò con un’estate indiana (Indian Summer), to Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlett Letter in a variety of ways. In particular, this paper argues that not only some of Pratt and Manara’s characters are very liberal, creative reinventions of Hawthorne’s figures-they might be seen as “spin-offs” of Hawthorne’s narrative-but in many ways Indian Summer is also thematically close to The Scarlet Letter.

Keywords

EN

The Scarlet Letter; Indian Summer; Hugo Pratt; Milo Manara; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Comparative Italian American Studies; Literary History

• Publisher: University of Silesia Press
• Journal: Review of International American Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2017-11-30

Contributors

author

Giorgio Mariani