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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164982503321

Autore

Ward David

Titolo

Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism : Stranger than Fact / / by David Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319466484

3319466488

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 241 p. 2 illus.)

Collana

Italian and Italian American Studies, , 2635-294X

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

European literature

Contemporary Literature

European Literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. In Defence of the Rose -- 3. Family Albums ad Conspiracy Theories -- 4. Stranger than Fact -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.