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.

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 TRAUMA -- Expressing 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.