Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683931432 ISBN 13: 9781683931430

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian culture from World War II to the contemporary times, and the volume has in a gendered approach one of its focuses, offering an encompassing view on cultural memory and highlighting the similarities between gendered revisitation and revisitation of the past. The volume is divided into three sections: cultural transmissions, fractured memories, and nostalgia. In the chapters herewith the study of memory through these forms hints at a sense of transformation and often enrichment or resilience, individual or collective, that values more the present and the future rather than the past.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrizia Sambuco is an independent scholar and editor of Italian Women Writers 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders and Transgression (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015).

About this edition

• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1683931432
• ISBN 13: 9781683931430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Sambuco Patrizia