Forging Shoah Memories [electronic resource] : Italian Women Writers, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust /
Lucamante, Stefania.author.
Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Survival and Representation of the Shoah in Italy; 1 The Italian Shoah: Reception and Representation; 2 Not Only Memory: Narrating the Camp between Reality and Fiction; 3 The Power of Dignity, Or "Writers Out of Necessity": The Case of Liana Millu and Edith Bruck; 4 Inside the d and Out of the Ghetto with the Bambine of Rome: Lia Levi, Rosetta Loy, and Giacoma Limentani; Part II "The World Must Be the Writer's Concern": La Storia According to Elsa Morante; 5 Le Lacrime: Morante and Her Critics
6 History and Stories: Historical Novels and the Danger of DisintegrationPart III Helena Janeczek: Understanding Jewish Memory from Lezioni di tenebra to Le rondini di Montecassino; 7 The Burden of Memory: Lezioni di tenebra; 8 Tips against "Numbness" for New Generations: For a Collective Useful Memory of the Shoah and a Global Novel: Janeczek's Postc; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop.
Morante, Elsa, approximately 1912-1985
Janeczek, Helena, 1964-
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Sociology.
World War, 1939-1945.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
European literature.
European History.
Modern History.
Gender Studies.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
European Literature.