Queering Two Resistance Novels: Historical Trauma, Open Secrets, and Non-Genealogical Plot in Carlo Coccioli’s Il migliore e l’ultimo and Beppe Fenoglio’s Il libro di Johnny
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Abstract
ABSTRACT A queer reading of Coccioli’s Il migliore e l’ultimo and Fenoglio’s Il libro di Johnny complicates the narration of the Italian Resistance by following a zig-zag path. This path begins on 8 September 1943, a traumatic day in which the national fiction fell apart, leaving the two novels’ heroes stranded without an army, a country, or a king. The path continues through the Resistance in the form of youth secession: the escape of thousands of young women and men away from home to build their own territorial, resistant communities. The last stage in this path consists of the rejection of the vertical link with the father and the establishment of horizontal connections between individuals who until recently were unknown to one another.
摘要:对Coccioli的《最后的我》(Il migliore e l’ultio)和Fenoglio的《强尼的自由》(Illibro di Johnny)的古怪解读,使意大利抵抗运动的叙事复杂化。这条路始于1943年9月8日,这是一个痛苦的日子,民族小说分崩离析,两部小说中的英雄们被困在没有军队、国家或国王的地方。这条道路以青年分裂的形式在抵抗运动中继续:成千上万的年轻男女逃离家园,建立自己的领土和抵抗社区。这条道路的最后一个阶段包括拒绝与父亲的垂直联系,并在直到最近还不为人所知的个体之间建立水平联系。
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Italian Studies has a national and international reputation for academic and scholarly excellence, publishing original articles (in Italian or English) on a wide range of Italian cultural concerns from the Middle Ages to the contemporary era. The journal warmly welcomes submissions covering a range of disciplines and inter-disciplinary subjects from scholarly and critical work on Italy"s literary culture and linguistics to Italian history and politics, film and art history, and gender and cultural studies. It publishes two issues per year, normally including one special themed issue and occasional interviews with leading scholars.The reviews section in the journal includes articles and short reviews on a broad spectrum of recent works of scholarship.