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Title
Contemporary Italian narrative and 1970s terrorism : stranger than fact / David Ward.
ISBN
9783319466484 (electronic book)
3319466488 (electronic book)
9783319466477
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-46648-4 doi
Call Number
PQ4053.T47
Dewey Decimal Classification
850.9
Summary
This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism. It explores how contemporary Italian writers have developed narrative strategies that enable them to represent the fraught experience of Italian terrorism in the 1970s. In its conclusions, the book suggests that to meet the challenge of representation posed by terrorism fiction rather than fact is the writer’s best friend and most effective tool.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 9, 2017).
Series
Italian and Italian American studies.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319466477
Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Italian Terrorism in the Long 1970s; Terrorism as Challenge to Representation; Notes; 2 In Defense of the Rose; Wu Ming and the Multitude; The Elephant in the Room; From Postmodernity to Hypermodernity; Postmodern Politics; Notes; 3 Family Albums and Conspiracy Theories; Narratives of Terrorism; Conspiracy Theories; A Challenge to Representation; Meeting the Challenge; Notes; 4 Stranger than Fact; Leonardo Sciascia; Loriano Macchiavelli: History as Fiction
Simone Sarasso: The Possible of HistoryGiuseppe Genna: History as Dissolution of Meaning; Notes; 5 Speculative Fiction; Speculative Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Index
