Autobiographical Cultures in Post-War Italy - Life-Writing, Communism and Feminism

Informationen zum Autor Walter S. Baroni is Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. Zusammenfassung After the Second World War, two contrasting political movements became increasingly active in Italy - the communist and feminist movements. In this book, Walter Baroni uses autobiographical life-writing from both movements key protagonists to shed new light on the history of these movements and more broadly the similarities and differences between political activists in post-war Italy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Institutional Communist Autobiographies, 1944-1956: Administrative Identification and Narrative Identity1.1 Communist Autobiographies: Origins1.2 The Italian Way to Autobiographical Control: Elements of context1.3 The communist autobiography: plot and storyChapter 2. Feminist Self-enunciation: Between Silence and Infinite Speech2.1. The paradox of emancipation and its autobiographical strategies2.2 Paranoia: The infinite discourse2.3 Schizophrenia and catatonia: Poetry, dreams and discursive hesitationsChapter 3. The remains of two traditions: Institutional monuments and impossible mourning3.1 After the end: The collapse of communism and the self-narrative3.2 Late feminist autobiographies: The journey towards legitimacy and normality3.3 Echoes of the origins: The autobiographies of Giorgio Napolitano and Laura Lepetit

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• Authors: Walter S Baroni, Walter S. Baroni, BARONI WALTER S, Baroni Walter S. Baroni
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781788313377
• ISBN: 978-1-78831-337-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Feminism and feminist theory, Marxism & Communism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)