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The Italian Literature of the Axis War

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63181-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-63180-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 12, 2021

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Introduction

Bartolini, Guido

Pages: 1 –13

[The introduction sets the context of this study. Starting from the renewed attention that the history of the Italian war crimes and occupations of World War II have acquired in the scholarship, Bartolini calls attention to the necessity of studying the field of cultural production, first and...
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Memory: Theory, History, and Media

Bartolini, Guido

Pages: 15 –50

[Building on theories of memory studies, Bartolini provides a sharp and theoretically sound conceptualisation of collective memory that supports the exploration of the scholarship on the legacy of World War II in Italy. Going beyond the differences that have often divided the Italian community...
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Topoi of Innocence

Bartolini, Guido

Pages: 51 –99

[Following a theoretical discussion on the forms of repetition in literary texts, this chapter examines the main topoi of the literature of the Axis War. Bartolini shows that this literary production is permeated by four recurrent conceptualisations, which concerns the good-hearted nature of the...
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Themes of a Lost War

Bartolini, Guido

Pages: 101 –164

[In this chapter, Bartolini carries out a broad exploration of seven themes that characterise the literature of the Axis War, focusing on the notions of innocence, defeat, victimhood, suffering, horror, pacifism, and heroism. As well as examining the ties among these thematic ideas and the...
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Masterplots of Sacrifice and Conversion

Bartolini, Guido

Pages: 165 –216

[This chapter shows how across the literature of the Axis War violence tends to be removed and guilt tends to be dismissed. Building on studies that have explored the use of implicit techniques in war literature, Bartolini carries out a detailed survey of the textual blind spots of the Italian...
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The Quest for Responsibility

Bartolini, Guido

Pages: 217 –250

[In this chapter, Bartolini focuses on all those representations that diverge from the self-absolving narrative that dominates both Italian literature and memory. He demonstrates that even through the categories that permeated postwar Italian culture, it was possible to narrate the Axis War in...
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Conclusion

Bartolini, Guido

Pages: 251 –255

[The conclusion summarises some of the main findings of this book, highlighting how the study of the figures of repetition in cultural production can support the exploration of cultural products in connection with collective memory. Bartolini reflects on the general shortcomings that affected...

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