This book tells the story of Naples as a city shaped by migration, creativity, and cultural resistance. It reframes Naples within global conversations about identity, mobility, and belonging, offering a South-centric perspective that challenges dominant narratives. Through personal reflections and a wide array of vivid examples from film, music, literature, and public art, Patrizia La Trecchia explores how Naples defies stereotypes and redefines Italian national identity. Each chapter highlights the city's contrasts-beauty and decay, tradition and innovation-as reflections of broader experiences across the Global South. With a focus on resilience and transformation, Reframing Naples invites readers to see the city not as a forgotten corner of Europe, but as a vibrant crossroads of global culture. Blending scholarly insight with personal storytelling, and featuring original photographs and archival materials, this book is both a cultural study and a personal archive of resistance.

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**Patrizia La Trecchia is Associate Professor and Head of Italian Studies at the University of South Florida, USA. She founded the Environmental Humanities Initiative and researches food studies and environmental humanities. She is the author of three books and a TED speaker, and serves on the board of the Association for the Study of Food and Society.