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Copyright: © Giulia Brecciaroli 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14296/wxvs7011

Number of pages: 244

Publication date: 11 January 2024

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Mapping Post-War Italian Literature

Boom and Aftermath (1956–1979)

Giulia Brecciaroli (Author)

Series: imlr books

Published in association with: Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies

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In the aftermath of the reconstruction period immediately after the Second World War, Italy experienced an unprecedented and unexpected phase of economic development, which transformed it from a traditionally agrarian and impoverished country into one of Europe’s most industrialized nations. The idea, treasured to this day by many Italians, of this period as a sort of ‘golden age’ has increasingly been called into question by historical research that has delved into the deeper, persistent contradictions of Italian society at the time. Mapping Post-War Italian Literature embraces the boom years and their legacy, exploring the long-lasting impact of post-war Italy’s urbanization and modernization on the imagination of Italian writers. It does so by looking at how socio-spatial transformations affecting the main industrial cities of the North – Milan and Turin – as well as the provinces (a space generally deemed ‘peripheral’) and the national landscape have been conceptualized in contemporary novels and travel accounts. The selected texts cross genre boundaries and reflect an array of authorial positions, giving a compelling and multifaceted account of the post-war historical transition.

In this important contribution to Italian studies, Brecciaroli successfully puts heterogeneous literary sources and critical approaches in dialogue. … aware of the risks implied by a focus on an anomalous collection of writers, [Brecciaroli] demonstrates a courageous attempt to reveal the complexity of transitions in postwar Italian society and opens the doors to numerous research questions that, one hopes, future scholarship will continue and expand.

—Daniele Forlino, Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA

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PDF: 9780854572854

EPUB: 9781915249678

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Paperback: 9780854572847 / 244 pages / 229mm x 152mm

Giulia Brecciaroli (Author)

—Daniele Forlino, Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA

Italica

Subject: Languages, Cultures and Societies

BISAC codes: LIT004200

Thema codes: DSBH

Keywords: Italy, Milan, Reconstruction era, Second World War, Turin, economic development, genre, golden age, literary, urbanization, writers

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