| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) |
| Series |
World War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension |
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World War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory -- 2. "Liberated" Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini's Paisà and Alfred Hayes's All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flaminia -- 3. Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli's "True" Romance Novels of Occupied Rome -- 4. A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns's The Gallery -- 5. Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of Curzio Malaparte's La pelle -- 6. The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis's Naples '44 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
Analyzes 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 29, 2019) |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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War and literature
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War and motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- History -- Allied occupation, 1943-1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068981
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| Subject |
Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823284528 |
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0823284522 |
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9780823284511 |
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0823284514 |
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