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

List of contents

Chapter 1. Institutional Communist Autobiographies, 1944-1956: Administrative Identification and Narrative Identity
1.1 Communist Autobiographies: Origins
1.2 The Italian Way to Autobiographical Control: Elements of context
1.3 The communist autobiography: plot and story
Chapter 2. Feminist Self-enunciation: Between Silence and Infinite Speech
2.1. The paradox of emancipation and its autobiographical strategies
2.2 Paranoia: The infinite discourse
2.3 Schizophrenia and catatonia: Poetry, dreams and discursive hesitations
Chapter 3. The remains of two traditions: Institutional monuments and impossible mourning
3.1 After the end: The collapse of communism and the self-narrative
3.2 Late feminist autobiographies: The journey towards legitimacy and normality
3.3 Echoes of the origins: The autobiographies of Giorgio Napolitano and Laura Lepetit

About the author

Walter S. Baroni is Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Walter S Baroni, Walter S. Baroni
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9780755636112
• ISBN: 978-0-7556-3611-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, HISTORY / Europe / Western, Italy, Feminism & feminist theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Feminism and feminist theory, Marxism & Communism