TY  - GEN
AB  - This book investigates the representation of the Axis War the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology, which combines memory studies, historiography, thematic criticism, and narratology, this book explores the main topoi, themes, and masterplots of an extensive corpus of novels and memoirs to assess the contribution of literature to the reshaping of Italian memory and identity after the end of Fascism. By exploring the influence that public memory exercises on literary depictions and, in return, the contribution of literary texts to the formation and dissemination of a discourse about the past, the book examines to what extent Italian literature helped readers form an ethical awareness of the crimes committed by members of their national community during World War II. Guido Bartolini is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Cork, Ireland, where he works on the cultural memory of fascism and its representation in Italian literature and cinema. .
AU  - Bartolini, Guido,
CN  - PQ4088
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-63181-9
DO  - doi
ID  - 1435767
KW  - Italian literature
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Collective memory and literature
KW  - Littérature italienne
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Mémoire collective et littérature
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-63181-9
N2  - This book investigates the representation of the Axis War the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology, which combines memory studies, historiography, thematic criticism, and narratology, this book explores the main topoi, themes, and masterplots of an extensive corpus of novels and memoirs to assess the contribution of literature to the reshaping of Italian memory and identity after the end of Fascism. By exploring the influence that public memory exercises on literary depictions and, in return, the contribution of literary texts to the formation and dissemination of a discourse about the past, the book examines to what extent Italian literature helped readers form an ethical awareness of the crimes committed by members of their national community during World War II. Guido Bartolini is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Cork, Ireland, where he works on the cultural memory of fascism and its representation in Italian literature and cinema. .
SN  - 9783030631819
SN  - 3030631818
T1  - Italian literature of the Axis War :memories of self-absolution and the quest for responsibility /
TI  - Italian literature of the Axis War :memories of self-absolution and the quest for responsibility /
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