Allied Encounters - The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy

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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Marisa Escolar
• Edition: Fordham University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780823284504
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8450-4
• Pages: 248
• Thèmes: World War II: The Global, Huma; World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension; World War II: The Global, Huma
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée