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Prison Terms: Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism - Couverture rigide

Nerenberg, Ellen

 
9780802035080: Prison Terms: Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0802035086 ISBN 13 : 9780802035080
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2001

Synopsis

In this ground-breaking work, Ellen Nerenberg offers an analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, the last fifteen years of Fascism and the fifteen that followed. Nerenberg diverges from the notion that a radical break from Fascism coincided with Mussolini's fall, instead revealing a disturbing continuity of social restraints following World War II.

Drawing on critical discourses of architectural design, urban planning, and cultural geography, Nerenberg offers readings of Buzzati, Piovène, de Céspedes, Banti, Morante, Pratolini, and Gadda. Not limiting herself to prisons, she also explores military barracks, convents, brothels, and homes as carceral homologue. In a surprising investigation of the male body as defined by the architectural space of the barracks and the discursive practices of military guides and journals, she challenges the notion circulated during Fascism of a homogenous model of masculinity. She also probes the social and symbolic positions of women in relation to confinement, the law, power, and liberty. In a chapter titled "House Arrest," she treats the ominous space of the home as a homologue for prison wherein "women are induced into criminality."

A study of literal and literary spaces during and after Italian Fascism, this work examines the ways in which Fascist cultural and discursive practices and ideology endure in other guises past the fall of the Regime.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ellen Nerenberg is Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802035086
ISBN 13 
9780802035080
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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Personne responsable
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