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La fine del mondo contadino nel racconto dei protagonisti: forme eterodosse di letteratura testimoniale
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
Following the dramatic end of rural civilization, in postwar Italy a new literary (albeit nonfictional) genre became prominent, namely the memoirs of ordinary people who felt the urge to recount their past, finally giving ...
L’antiebraismo e l’antisemitismo giudeofobico: dai primordi precristiani all’antigiudaismo della Chiesa delle origini
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
This essay, starting from a broader concept of “witness literature”, understood in the sense of having to make known what would otherwise remain ignored, presents a little-known theme, namely that of anti-Jewish hatred, ...
Un caso (misconosciuto) di letteratura testimoniale: Nicola Palermo
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
In this contribution a semi-unknown text of the prison prose of southern Italy is rediscovered, which is also an exemplary result of testimonial literature and denunciation of Bourbon tyranny. For almost a decade the ...
«Modestissime» memorie di una «grafofila» antifascista
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
The contribution examines the little-known Memorie di un antifascista (1946), in which the Piedmontese writer Barbara Allason offers a valuable first-hand account of the birth and development of the clandestine conspiracy ...
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(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
Tra testimonianza e propaganda: Giulia D’Arienzo, ‘Madrid. Mesi di incubo’ (1937)
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
The essay examines Madrid. Mesi di incubo, published in 1937 by Sperling & Kupfler and presented by the journalist Giulia d’Arienzo as her testimony of the Spanish Civil War. The research shows the author’s ambiguous ...
«Tornare. Mangiare. Raccontare». I bisogni primari nelle testimonianze dei sopravvissuti
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
Primo Levi is considered to be the foremost author of testimonial literature, that is, of self-referential texts that do not recount one’s entire life or the events in which one has participated as a spectator, but rather ...
Letteratura latinoamericana in esilio: Napoli 29-30 settembre 1979-Roma 14-20 aprile 1980
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
For survivors of extermination camps, narrating is a necessity as important as complex, it is a primary liberating need: those who experienced the Lager are witnesses by right and by duty. Lidia Beccaria Rolfi, a political ...
Letteratura e resistenza. Uno sguardo attorno alle scrittricipartigiane Renata Viganò e Ada Prospero
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
The article focuses on the historical and social importance of the testimonies of the “forgotten protagonists” of the Resistance, the partisans. Through the reading of some examples taken from the novel L’Agnese va a morire ...
Bellodi e il «Mi ci romperò la testa». Difesa dello stato e scontro tra arbitrio e diritto ne ‘Il giorno della civetta’
(Avellino : Associazione culturale Internazionale Sinestesie, 2021)
The paper prefigures a reading of The day of the owl, starting from a focus study on the main character: captain Bellodi. According to Sciascia, the genre of the thriller is just a literary pretext and, with the description ...