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Prison terms : representing confinement during and after Italian fascism / Ellen V. Nerenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442678750 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prison terms : representing confinement during and after Italian fascism.DDC classification:
  • 850.9/355 21
LOC classification:
  • PQ4053.P76 .N474 2001
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An analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, covering the last years of Fascism. Not limiting herself to prisons, Nerenberg also explores military barracks, convents, and brothels as carceral homologues.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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The spirit of Michel Foucault broods heavily, but always to interesting effect, over this interdisciplinary study of the representation of confinement in 20th-century Italian narrative. Nerenberg (Wesleyan Univ.) begins from the construction (both literal and social) of carceral space in Italy during the Fascist ventennio--which, perhaps controversially for some, she also sees as having established tendencies that continue to have influence well after 1945--and also identifies analogues with the Fascist-era prison in the discursive formation of the barracks, the brothel, and the home. She then undertakes detailed readings of several modern Italian novels (by such as Buzzati, Piovene, de Cespedes, Banti, Morante, Pratolini, and Gadda, among others) and weaves into her argument some fascinating material from the disciplines of architecture, urban planning, and geography. Original in conception and skillful in execution, this is an important contribution to contemporary thinking about 20th-century Italian culture. S. Botterill University of California, Berkeley

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