Forging Shoah memories : Italian women writers, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust / Stefania Lucamante.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucamante, Stefania, author.

Series:

Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Italian and Italian American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Janeczek, Helena, 1964-.

Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985.

Italian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Italian literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jewish women.

Intellectual life.

Criticism and interpretation.

Italian literature--Jewish authors.

Italian literature--Women authors.

Italy.

Italian literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

Morante, Elsa, 1912-1985--Criticism and interpretation.

Morante, Elsa.

Janeczek, Helena, 1964---Criticism and interpretation.

Janeczek, Helena.

Jewish women in the Holocaust.

Jewish women--Italy--Intellectual life.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

x, 291 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Though there has been an outpouring of historical studies and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, in recent decades the experiences of women have too often been marginalized in this research. In particular, women's literary representations and testimonies of the Holocaust have not received their proper due, and while feminist scholarship since the 1970s has gone some way toward addressing this lacuna, there are very few distinctively Italian examples of such writing that have seen publication and garnered scholarly attention. This study fills this gap by deploying a gender-based analysis of Italian women's experiences of living and writing the Shoah, encompassing works from a variety of literary genres set against a complex historical backdrop. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Survival and Representation of the Shoah in Italy

1 The Italian Shoah: Reception and Representation 23

2 Not Only Memory: Narrating the Camp between Reality and Fiction 47

3 The Power of Dignity, Or "Writers Out of Necessity": The Case of Liana Millu and Edith Bruck 75

4 Inside the D and Out of the Ghetto with the Bambine of Rome: Lia Levi, Rosetta Loy, and Giacoma Limentani 113

Part II "The World Must Be the Writer's Concern": La Storia According to Elsa Morante

5 Le Lacrime: Morante and Her Critics 153

6 History and Stories: Historical Novels and the Danger of Disintegration 165

Part III Helena Janeczek: Understanding Jewish Memory from Lezioni di tenehra to Le rondini di Montecassino

7 The Burden of Memory: Lezioni di tenebra 201

8 Tips against "Numbness" for New Generations: For a Collective Useful Memory of the Shoah and a Global Novel: Janeczek's Postcolonial Thought 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137382689

1137382686

OCLC:

869066611