Every Word I Write is History: Memory and Literary Analysis of Italian Postwar Literature

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dc.contributor.authorPennetta, Sabrina
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T18:48:18Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T18:48:18Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-15
dc.description.abstractThis report will analyze postwar Italian literature from 1945 to 1990. It will look at how Italian society dealt with the events of the war and how the idea of national unity and the nation were compromised during and after the Second World War and the internal Civil War (1943-1945). I will analyze various Italian authors who contributed to different perspectives on postwar Italy, such as Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino, Alberta Moravia, Elsa Morante, Ada Gobetti, Natalia Ginzburg, and Maria Occhipinti. An analysis of nationalism, gender, and memory will form the backbone of this report. Literature holds the key to understanding Italian society in the postwar world because of the freedom and vastness that writing provided Italians who had previously sought refuge from the persecution of their faith, gender, or political standing. Various questions emerge when studying this period; questions that are worthy of analysis. How did partisans attempt to understand their role in a larger struggle for their nation? Could women push through the paternalistic hierarchies established by fascism and emerge stronger? To what extent do these authors challenge the landscape of Italian memory studies? The answers to these questions lie in the words of postwar Italian literature.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPennetta, S. (2018). Every Word I Write is History: Memory and Literary Analysis of Italian Postwar Literature (Rep.). Calgary, AB: University of Calgary.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/32992
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/108054
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentFrench, Italian & Spanishen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.subjectItalian literatureen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth century literatureen_US
dc.subjectItalian historyen_US
dc.subjectmemory studiesen_US
dc.titleEvery Word I Write is History: Memory and Literary Analysis of Italian Postwar Literatureen_US
dc.typereporten_US
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