Awards

• Commended for American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2020

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Author:   Marisa Escolar
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823284498

ISBN 10:   0823284492
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   02 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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 Paisa 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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Italy-as-whore and Italian whores have populated much of the literature that examines what happened to the country and its inhabitants during the Allied occupation and after the liberation. Allied Encounters asks what the racialized, gendered, and sexualized figures of the novels and films in question communicate to us, beyond the interpretations of the traditional critics who favor the view of Italy as a country that compromised its integrity letting itself to be seduced meretriciously by the political interest of the moment. Distancing itself from the official canon, the author opens up to a discourse that allows a dialogue among the various works, vis-a-vis the literary tradition and the historical background they inhabit. The book is a welcome addition to the Italian scholarship, redressing and re-reading the encounter between the Allied and Italy according to other parameters and against the grain. -- Flavia Brizio-Skov, University of Tennessee

Author Information

Marisa Escolar is Assistant Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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