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- Book Title
- Against Redemption : Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-fa
- ISBN
- 9781531502393
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Political Science, History
- Publication Name
- Against Redemption : Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Comparative Literature, Military / World War II, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Series
- World War II: the Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 15.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
1531502393
ISBN-13
9781531502393
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4057272353
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Against Redemption : Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy
Subject
Comparative Literature, Military / World War II, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Political Science, History
Series
World War II: the Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2022-046878
Reviews
Deflating clichés, debunking myths, filling in gaps: Baldasso's book brings to light a much more multifaceted and controversial picture of the transition from fascism to democracy in Italy. With sharp arguments, remarkable interdisciplinary breadth and crisp prose, Baldasso delivers a must-read book for anyone interested in how collective memory is institutionalized--and perhaps even dismantled. ---Maria Anna Mariani, An ambitious, wide-ranging, and masterful rethinking of postwar Italian culture. Baldasso challenges the narrative--embraced by both Christian Democrats and Communists--of redemption and regeneration that was to undergird Italian society. In doing so, he gives us new ways of re-reading Italian postwar history. With a firm grasp of the theoretical underpinnings and their repercussions, he shows that the period of 1943-1948 was marked by an extraordinary and liminal ideological fluidity. ---Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University, Deflating clichés, debunking myths, filling in gaps: Baldasso's book brings to light a much more multifaceted and controversial picture of the transition from fascism to democracy in Italy. With sharp arguments, remarkable interdisciplinary breadth and crisp prose, Baldasso delivers a must-read book for anyone interested in how collective memory is institutionalized--and perhaps even dismantled. ---Maria Anna Mariani, Assistant Professor of Italian Literature, University of Chicago, and author of Primo Levi e Anna Frank: tra testimonianza e letteratura, A critical engagement with the past: with Against Redemption , this is what Franco Baldasso offers powerfully, with intellectual finesse and conceptual precision. ---Rosario Forlenza, Journal of Modern Italian Studies
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
945.092
Table Of Content
Introduction: Ruins and Debris of a Contested History 1 1. After Italian Totalitarianism 27 2. The Language of Responsibility 65 3. Ghosts from a Recent Past 96 4. Carlo Levi on the Religion of the State 140 5. Curzio Malaparte, a Tragic Modernity 172 Conclusion: Tearing Down the Monuments 199 Acknowledgments 205 Notes 209 Bibliography 265 Index 295
Synopsis
WINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORY Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics. How a shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape is still today the most disputed question of modern Italy, crossing the boundaries between academic and public discourse. Against Redemption concentrates on the historical period in which disagreement was at its highest: the transition between the downfall of Mussolini in July 1943 and the victory of the Christian Democrats over the Left in the 1948 general elections. By dispelling the silence around the range of opinion in the years before the ideological struggle fossilized into Cold War oppositions, this book points to early postwar literary practices as the main vehicle for intellectual dissent, shedding new light on the role of cultural policies in institutionalizing collective memory. During Italy's transition to democracy, competing narratives over the recent traumatic past emerged and crystallized, depicting the country's break with Mussolini's regime as a political and personal redemption from its politics of exclusion and unrestrained use of violence. Conversely, outstanding authors such as Elsa Morante, Carlo Levi, Alberto Moravia, and Curzio Malaparte, in close dialogue with remarkable but now-neglected figures, stressed the cultural continuity between the new democracy and Fascism, igniting heated debates from opposite political standpoints. Their works addressed questions such as the working through of national defeat, Italian responsibility in World War II, and the Holocaust, revealing how the social, racial, and gender biases that character-ized Fascism survived after its demise and haunted the newborn democracy., WINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORY Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics. How a shared memory of Fascism and its cultural heritage took shape is still today the most disputed question of modern Italy, crossing the boundaries between academic and public discourse. Against Redemption concentrates on the historical period in which disagreement was at its highest: the transition between the downfall of Mussolini in July 1943 and the victory of the Christian Democrats over the Left in the 1948 general elections. By dispelling the silence around the range of opinion in the years before the ideological struggle fossilized into Cold War oppositions, this book points to early postwar literary practices as the main vehicle for intellectual dissent, shedding new light on the role of cultural policies in institutionalizing collective memory. During Italy's transition to democracy, competing narratives over the recent traumatic past emerged and crystallized, depicting the country's break with Mussolini's regime as a political and personal redemption from its politics of exclusion and unrestrained use of violence. Conversely, outstanding authors such as Elsa Morante, Carlo Levi, Alberto Moravia, and Curzio Malaparte, in close dialogue with remarkable but now-neglected figures, stressed the cultural continuity between the new democracy and Fascism, igniting heated debates from opposite political standpoints. Their works addressed questions such as the working through of national defeat, Italian responsibility in World War II, and the Holocaust, revealing how the social, racial, and gender biases that characterized Fascism survived after its demise and haunted the newborn democracy.
LC Classification Number
PQ4088.B277 2022
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