Transmissions of Memory

Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture
Herausgeber: Sambuco, Patrizia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The volume is divided into three sections: cultural transmissions, fractured memories, and nostalgia, to individuate through cultural products-films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media-the dynamics of memory within Italian culture from World War II to the contemporary times.

Produktdetails

• The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781683931430
• ISBN-10: 1683931432
• Artikelnr.: 50448929

Autorenporträt

Edited by Patrizia Sambuco - Contributions by Adele Bardazzi; David W. Ellwood; John Foot; Torunn Haaland; Andrea Hajek; Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra; Charles L. Leavitt IV; Martin McLaughlin; Sandra Parmegiani; Katia Pizzi; Patrizia Sambuco and Maria Crist

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: Memory as Cultural Transmission 1.
Calvino, Eco and the Transmission of World Literature, Martin McLaughlin 2.
Montale's Xenia: Between Myth and Poetic Tradition, Adele Bardazzi 3.
Repressed Memory and Traumatic History in Alberto Moravia's The Woman of
Rome, Charles L. Leavitt IV 4. Reconstructing the Maternal: Transmission of
Memory, Cultural Translation and Transnational Identity in Igiaba Scego's
La mia casa è dove sono, Maria Cristina Seccia Section II: Trauma and
Divided Memory 5. At the Edge. Divided Memory on Italy's Borders. The Case
of Trieste and the Foibe di Basovizza, John Foot 6. Remembering War. Memory
and History in Claudio Magris's Blameless, Sandra Parmegiani 7. Blood, Sand
and Stone: Trieste's Transcultural Memories, Katia Pizzi 8. The Trauma of
Liberation: Rape, Love and Violence in Wartime Italy, David W. Ellwood 9.
Between Past and Present, Self and Other: Liminality and the Transmission
of Traumatic Memory in Elena Ferrante's La figlia oscura, Torunn Haaland
Section III: Memory as Nostalgia 10. Mother-Daughter Nostalgia in the
Abruzzi of Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Patrizia Sambuco 11. A Future Without
Nostalgia. Remembering Second-Wave Feminism in Mia madre femminista and Fra
me e te, Andrea Hajek 12. Transnational Nostalgia in an All-Female Italian
Facebook Group and Cooking Blog, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra About the
Contributors