Glynn Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture

2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-34199-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glynn, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The anni di piombo , Women and Trauma 1. Approaching Women, Terror and Trauma in Cultural Perspective: Theoretical Principles 2. Press Representations of Italian Women Terrorists 3. Feminizing Terror: Pentitismo and the Cinema of Containment 4. Writing the Terrorist Self 5. Re-feminizing the Female Terrorist 6. Romancing the Female Terrorist 7. Between Myth and Maternity: The Women of the 'New Red Brigades'

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Glynn is Senior Lecturer in the Italian department at the University of Bristol, UK.