Escolar Allied Encounters

The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8452-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Escolar, Marisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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