University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 200
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-68393-137-9 • Hardback • February 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-68393-139-3 • Paperback • September 2019 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
978-1-68393-138-6 • eBook • February 2018 • $44.50 • (£35.00)
Thomas Cragin is professor of history at Muhlenberg College.
Laura Salsini is professor of Italian at the University of Delaware.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Phases in Italy’s Representations of World War II
Chapter One: Poetic Truth of War: Elsa Morante’s “The Sicilian Soldier”
Gabrielle Orsi
Chapter Two: Brotherhood of Arms: Patriotism, Atlanticism and Sublimation of War in 1950s Italian War Movies
Gianluca Fantoni
Chapter Three: Responses to Cold War Crisis: La Ciociara from Moravia to De Sica
Thomas Cragin
Chapter Four: Andremo in città: A Levinasian Witnessing in Edith Bruck’s Short Story and Nelo Risi’s Film
Virginia Picchietti
Chapter Five: Spaces of Resistance: The Role of the Mountain in Italy’s Partisan War
Angela Boscolo Berto
Chapter Six: Mysteries of Italian Women Partisans in Luce d’Eramo’s Una strana fortuna
and in Bruno Morchio’s Rossoamaro
Barbara Zaczek
Chapter Seven: La rappresaglia: Highlighting Female Identity through the Emotion of Shame
Simonetta Milli Konewko
Chapter Eight: Visions of Virility: Masculinity and Memory in the Italian War Film
Rebecca Bauman
About the Contributors