Title: Allied encounters : the gendered redemption of World War II Italy /
Authors: Escolar, Marisa
Year: 2019
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Literature and the war; World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war; War and literature; War and motion pictures; Italy History; Italy
Contents: Redeeming destination Italy : a guide to the occupation of enemy territory -- "Liberated" Rome beyond redemption : Roberto Rossellini's Paisá and Alfred Hayes's All They Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flamina -- Happily ever after redemption : Luciana Peverelli's "true" romance novels of occupied Rome -- A queer redemption : John Horne Burns's The Gallery -- Sleights of hand, black skin, and the redemption of Curzio Malaparte's La pelle -- The redemption of Saint Paul : Norman Lewis's Naples '44.