Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism

Stranger than Fact
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-83554-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism. It explores how contemporary Italian writers have developed narrative strategies that enable them to represent the fraught experience of Italian terrorism in the 1970s. In its conclusions, the book suggests that to meet the challenge of representation posed by terrorism fiction rather than fact is the writer’s best friend and most effective tool.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. In Defence of the Rose.- 3. Family Albums ad Conspiracy Theories.- 4. Stranger than Fact.- Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

David Ward is Professor of Italian Studies at Wellesley College, USA. He is the author of A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Antifascisms: Cultural Politics in Italy, 1943-1946, and Piero Gobetti’s New World: Antifascism, Liberalism, Writing.