Format:
303 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781531502393
,
9781531502386
Series Statement:
World War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension
Content:
"Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics. How a shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape is still today the most disputed question of modern Italy, crossing the boundaries between academic and public discourse. Against Redemption concentrates on the historical period in which disagreement was at its highest: the transition between the downfall of Mussolini in July 1943 and the victory of the Christian Democrats over the Left in the 1948 general elections. By dispelling the silence around the range of opinion in the years before the ideological struggle fossilized into Cold War oppositions, this book points to early postwar literary practices as the main vehicle for intellectual dissent, shedding new light on the role of cultural policies in institutionalizing collective memory. During Italy's transition to democracy competing narratives over the recent traumatic past emerged and crystallized, depicting the country's break with Mussolini's regime as a political and personal redemption from its politics of exclusion and unrestrained use of violence. Conversely, outstanding authors such as Elsa Morante, Carlo Levi, Alberto Moravia and Curzio Malaparte, in close dialogue with remarkable but now neglected figures, stressed the cultural continuity between the new democracy and Fascism, igniting heated debates from opposite political standpoints. Their works addressed questions such as the working through of national defeat, Italian responsibility in WWII and the Holocaust, revealing how the social, racial, and gender biases that characterized Fascism survived after its demise and haunted the new born democracy"--
Note:
Introduction: Ruins and Debris of a Contested History -- After Italian Totalitarianism -- The Language of Responsibility -- Ghosts from a Recent Past -- Carlo Levi on the Religion of the State -- Curzio Malaparte, a Tragic Modernity -- Conclusion: Tearing Down the Monuments
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-5315-0241-6
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781531503864
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781531502409
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781531502416
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Italien
;
Faschismus
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1943-1948
