Autobiographical cultures in post-war Italy : life-writing, communism and feminism /: life-writing, communism and feminism. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Walter S. Baroni.
• Authors: Baroni, Walter S
• Contents: Chapter 1. Institutional Communist Autobiographies, 1944-1956: Administrative Identification and Narrative Identity1.1 Communist Autobiographies: Origins1.2 The Italian Way to Autobiographical Control: Elements of context1.3 The communist autobiography: plot and storyChapter 2. Feminist Self-enunciation: Between Silence and Infinite Speech2.1. The paradox of emancipation and its autobiographical strategies2.2 Paranoia: The infinite discourse2.3 Schizophrenia and catatonia: Poetry, dreams and discursive hesitationsChapter 3. The remains of two traditions: Institutional monuments and impossible mourning3.1 After the end: The collapse of communism and the self-narrative3.2 Late feminist autobiographies: The journey towards legitimacy and normality3.3 Echoes of the origins: The autobiographies of Giorgio Napolitano and Laura Lepetit.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 320.532094509045; Communism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century; Feminism -- Italy -- History -- 20th century; Communism in literature; Feminism in literature; Autobiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350190740; 9781350190733
• Related ISBNs: 9781788313377
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