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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
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Survival and Representation of the Shoah in Italy
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“The World Must Be the Writer’s Concern”: La Storia According to Elsa Morante
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Helena Janeczek: Understanding Jewish Memory from Lezioni di tenebra to Le rondini di Montecassino
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Conclusions
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'There is a remarkable and largely unknown corpus of Italian Holocaust writing by women. Stefania Lucamante's book, the first on the topic in English, is extremely rich and articulate, as insightful in its uses of theory and history as in its intense close readings.' - Robert S. C. Gordon, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge, UK
"Stefania Lucamante's study is the first to provide a cohesive and coherent analysis of women's narrative outputs concerning persecution, deportation, and genocide in Italy. Forging Shoah Memories composes a rich tapestry of stories and unique reflections which emphasizes the experience of Jewish Italian women, still little known on the international stage, discovering their characteristics and projecting them onto the background of theoretical and methodological problems related to the larger narrative of the Holocaust. Forging Shoah Memories also represents an invaluable contribution to the debate on whether or not to apply the category of gender in the context of Holocaust Studies, a debate that Stefania Lucamante has addressed calmly and firmly, showing with her own work the need to avoid stifling the experience of women within a 'neutral universal.'' - Anna Bravo, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, University of Turin, Italy
"The boundaries between memoir writing and literary writing are thin. Thanks to her choice to write about gender in Holocaust literary studies, Lucamante moves with agility between these two genres. Her trajectory begins with the testimony of the first survivors and moves through Elsa Morante - a wonderful case study. Lucamante's exploration advances an extremely worthy critical alternative to the better known case of Primo Levi's work." - Alberto Cavaglion, Professor of History of Judaism, University of Florence
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forging Shoah Memories
Book Subtitle: Italian Women Writers, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust
Authors: Stefania Lucamante
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375346
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38268-9Published: 25 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48008-1Published: 25 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37534-6Published: 25 June 2014
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 291
Topics: European History, Modern History, Gender Studies, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Twentieth-Century Literature, European Literature