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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.

Table of Contents

Preface | ix
Introduction | 1
1 Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory | 17
2 “Liberated” Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini’s
Paisà and Alfred Hayes’s All Thy Conquests and The Girl
on the Via Flaminia | 42
3 Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli’s
“True” Romance Novels of Occupied Rome | 66
4 A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns’s The Gallery | 91
5 Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of
Curzio Malaparte’s La pelle | 111
6 The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis’s Naples ’44 | 132
Epilogue | 153
Acknowledgments | 163
Notes | 167
Works Cited | 213
Index | 231

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 02/07/2019
      ISBN13: 9780823284504, 978-0823284504
      ISBN10: 0823284506
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Gender studies, gender groups

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Preface | ix
      Introduction | 1
      1 Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory | 17
      2 “Liberated” Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini’s
      Paisà and Alfred Hayes’s All Thy Conquests and The Girl
      on the Via Flaminia | 42
      3 Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli’s
      “True” Romance Novels of Occupied Rome | 66
      4 A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns’s The Gallery | 91
      5 Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of
      Curzio Malaparte’s La pelle | 111
      6 The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis’s Naples ’44 | 132
      Epilogue | 153
      Acknowledgments | 163
      Notes | 167
      Works Cited | 213
      Index | 231

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