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Italy has experienced a high number of earthquakes. However, the identity of "the Italians" has not yet been defined by their "landscape of wounds." Referring to an earthquake in central Italy (Amatrice) in August 2016, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a controversial caricature of two wounded Italians standing alongside the "Lasagnes," a pile of bodies layered like the well- known Italian pasta dish. By analysing the caricature's text, intertext, and context, while drawing on imagology and geopoetics, this article aims to show how earthquakes are linked to Italian cultural stereotypes and national identity.
Monika Schmitz-Emans' Beitrag 'Literarische Echos auf Lissabon 1755' beleuchtet verschiedene Texte, die sich auf das Lissaboner Erdbeben - eine paradigmatische Katastrophe - beziehen: Im Vergleich der Texte von Heinrich von Kleist, Thomas Mann, Peter Sloterdijk und Reinhold Schneider zeigt sich die diskursive Bedingtheit von Katastrophen, die letztlich das Produkt zeitspezifischer Wissensformationen sind. Das Reflexionsniveau literarischer Katastrophendarstellungen erlaubt es, diese Prozesse der Diskursivierung und Sinnstiftung neu zu denken.