Italian and Italian American Studies: Stranger than Fact

Ward, David

This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism. It explores how contemporary Italian writers have developed narrative strategies that enable them to represent the fraught experience of Italian terrorism in the 1970s. In its conclusions, the book suggests that to meet the challenge of representation posed by terrorism fiction rather than fact is the writer’s best friend and most effective tool.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-07-13

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319835549

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46648-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 241