Allied Encounters : The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy /

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Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter. The arrival of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Escolar, Marisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Edition:First edition.
Series:World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Italy > History > Allied occupation, 1943-1947.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Redeeming destination Italy : a guide to the occupation of enemy territory
  • "Liberated" Rome beyond redemption : Roberto Rossellini's Paisà and Alfred Hayes's All thy conquests and The girl on the Via Flaminia
  • Happily ever after redemption : Luciana Peverelli's "true" romance novels of occupied Rome
  • A queer redemption : John Horne Burns's The gallery
  • Sleights of hand, black skin, and the redemption of Curzio Malaparte's La pelle
  • The redemption of Saint Paul : Norman Lewis's Naples '44.

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