Synopses & Reviews
Though there has been an outpouring in recent decades of historical studies and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, the experiences of women have too often been marginalized in this research. In particular, women's literary representations and testimonies of the Holocaust have not received their proper due, and while feminist scholarship since the 1970s has gone some way toward addressing this lacuna, there are very few distinctively Italian examples of such writing that have seen publication and garnered scholarly attention. This study fills this gap by deploying a gender-based analysis of Italian women's experiences of living and writing the Shoah, encompassing works from a variety of literary genres set against a complex historical backdrop.
Synopsis
Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women's writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop.
About the Author
Stefania Lucamente is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the Catholic University of America, USA.
Table of Contents
1. Women Writing the Shoah
2. Memories, Testimonies
3. Those Who Came Back to Write, or the "Writers out of Necessity": Edith Bruck, 11153, and Liana Millu, 5384
4. The Bambine di Roma: Lia Levi, Rosetta Loy, Giacoma Limentani, and the Myth of Italiani, Brava Gente
5. The World Must Be the Writer's Concern: Elsa Morante's La Storia
6. "Daughters of the Holocaust": Lezioni di tenebra and Jewish Identity according to Helena Janeczek