Autobiographical Cultures In Post-War Italy: Life-Writing, Communism And Feminism - 9780755636112

Introduction --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 -- 2. Eminist self-enuniciation: 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 -- 3. The remains of two traditions: institutional monument 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 -- Giorgio Napolitano: The man who made himself an institution -- Laura Lepetit: feminism as distraction.

• | Author: Walter S. Baroni
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0755636112
• | ISBN-13: 9780755636112