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Title: Narrative and Imperative

Narrative and Imperative

The First Fifty Years of Italian Holocaust Writing (1944-1994)

by Risa B. Sodi (Author)
©2007 Monographs XII, 278 Pages
Romance Studies

Summary

Narrative & Imperative is the first book in English on Italian Holocaust writing as a whole. Risa Sodi explores the work of eight representative authors, including the internationally famous (Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, and Elsa Morante) and the lesser known (Giacomo Debenedetti, Paolo Maurensig, Liana Millu, Bruno Piazza, and Giuliana Tedeschi). She examines issues of genre, language, gender, and facticity while situating the works studied within the fields of European and Holocaust letters. A brief history of the Italian Jews – the oldest Jewish community in Europe – opens the book, and the conclusion brings the study up to recent times.

Details

Pages
XII, 278
Year
2007
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820488721
Language
English
Keywords
Italienisch Literatur Judenvernichtung (Motiv) Geschichte 1944-1994 Twentieth-century literature Holocaust Primo Levi Twentieth-century Italian history Italian literature
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2007. XII, 278 pp.

Biographical notes

Risa B. Sodi (Author)

The Author: Risa Sodi is Senior Lector in Italian at Yale University, Director of Undergraduate Study, and Director of the Italian Language Program. She received her M.Phil. and her Ph.D. in Italian language and literature from Yale University, and her M.A. in French and Italian literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals on Italian-Jewish authors and the Italian Holocaust in literature and film, she is the author of A Dante of Our Time: Primo Levi and Auschwitz (Peter Lang, 1990) and has interviewed Primo Levi, Liana Millu, and Giuliana Tedeschi.

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