Marisa Escolar

Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.

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Produktdetails

• World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780823284504
• ISBN-10: 0823284506
• Artikelnr.: 53543167

Autorenporträt

Marisa Escolar is Assistant Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix Introduction 1 1 Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory 17 2
Liberated
Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini
s Paisà and Alfred Hayes
s All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flaminia 42 3 Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli
s
True
Romance Novels of Occupied Rome 66 4 A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns
s The Gallery 91 5 Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of Curzio Malaparte
s La pelle 111 6 The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis
s Naples
44 132 Epilogue 153 Acknowledgments 163 Notes 167 Works Cited 213 Index 231