A Century of Italian War Narratives : : Voices from the Sidelines /

A Century of Italian War Narratives : : Voices from the Sidelines / / edited by Luigi Gussago and Pina Palma.

This volume focuses on acts of courage, defiance, and sacrifice undertaken during World War I and II by individuals that mainstream history has relegated to the sidelines. Drawn from different genres – literary, cinematic, diaristic and historical – the experiences that these ‘outsiders’ confronted...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Gussago, Luigi,
Palma, Pina,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (230 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Voices from the Sidelines
  • 1 Tabucchi and the Antihero: Figures for a Historical, Existential and Symbolic Resistance
  • Veronica Frigeni
  • 2 The Foibe War Narrative: The New Antiheroes of the ‘Second Republic’
  • Louise Zamparutti
  • 3 Margherita Marchione as Antihero for Italian Jews: A Complex Message of Hope
  • Lisa Vitale
  • 4 Unfit for War: Stories of Desertion in Italian Fiction; Dessì and Pellegrini
  • Luigi Gussago
  • 5 “Non credo più alla Patria, all’eroismo, alle Sante Cause …”: The Journal of Donato Guglielmi, pow in Russia during ww2
  • Gianluca Cinelli
  • 6 Partisan Diary : Ada’s Wars
  • Pina Palma
  • 7 Notturno and the War: D’Annunzio’s Intimate Reflection on Heroism
  • Michela Barisonzi
  • 8 Everyday Heroes: Italian Identity, Moral Dilemmas, and Nonviolence in a Late Antifascist Resistance Novel by Antonio Barolini
  • Andrea Sartori
  • 9 An Antihero in Command: Soffici under the Orders of Captain Punzi
  • Enrico Riccardo Orlando
  • 10 Between Epic and Anti-Epic: Observations on Italian Literature of the Great War
  • Tancredi Artico
  • Index.

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