Allied Encounters

Auteur

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

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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