Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism Stranger than Fac
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 ba
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This series brings the latest scholarship in Italian and Italian American history, literature, cinema, and cultural studies to a large audience of specialists, general readers, and students. Featuring works on modern Italy (Renaissance to the present) and Italian American culture and society by established scholars as well as new voices, it has been a longstanding force in shaping the evolving fields of Italian and Italian American Studies by re-emphasizing their connection to one another.
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David Ward
Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism Stranger than Fact
David Ward Madison, Connecticut, USA
Italian and Italian American Studies ISBN 978-3-319-46647-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-46648-4
ISBN 978-3-319-46648-4 (eBook)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book has several points of origin. One is my enthusiastic discovery about ten years ago of Italian politico-crime thrillers set against the background of recent Italian historical events, most typically those of the long 1970s, the years of terrorism (at a personal level, in the latter part of the decade I lived in Bologna, perhaps the Italian city most hit by terrorist outrages); another was my equally enthusiastic discovery of what is in Italian called ucronia, known in English as alternative history, a branch of speculative fiction; a third is my great admiration for Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose; and a fourth and connected point of origin is my interest in postmodern narrative aesthetics. T
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