Autobiographical Cultures in Post-War Italy

Life-Writing, Communism and Feminism

Walter S. Baroni (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7556-3611-2 (ISBN)

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After the Second World War, two contrasting political movements became increasingly active in Italy - the communist and feminist movements. In this book, Walter Baroni uses autobiographical life-writing from both movements key protagonists to shed new light on the history of these movements and more broadly the similarities and differences between political activists in post-war Italy.

Walter S. Baroni is a Marie Curie Alumnus and teaches Sociology of Education at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

Chapter 1. Institutional Communist Autobiographies, 1944-1956: Administrative Identification and Narrative Identity
1.1 Communist Autobiographies: Origins
1.2 The Italian Way to Autobiographical Control: Elements of context
1.3 The communist autobiography: plot and story
Chapter 2. Feminist Self-enunciation: Between Silence and Infinite Speech
2.1. The paradox of emancipation and its autobiographical strategies
2.2 Paranoia: The infinite discourse
2.3 Schizophrenia and catatonia: Poetry, dreams and discursive hesitations
Chapter 3. The remains of two traditions: Institutional monuments and impossible mourning
3.1 After the end: The collapse of communism and the self-narrative
3.2 Late feminist autobiographies: The journey towards legitimacy and normality
3.3 Echoes of the origins: The autobiographies of Giorgio Napolitano and Laura Lepetit

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	15 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7556-3611-2 / 0755636112
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-3611-2 / 9780755636112
Zustand	Neuware