The Years of Alienation in Italy Factory and Asylum Between the Econ
The Years of Alienation in Italy offers an interdisciplinary overview of the socio-political, psychological, philosophical, and cultural meanings that the notion of alienation took on in Italy between the 1960s and the 1970s. It addresses alienation as a
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The Years of Alienation in Italy
Alessandra Diazzi • Alvise Sforza Tarabochia Editors
The Years of Alienation in Italy Factory and Asylum Between the Economic Miracle and the Years of Lead
Editors Alessandra Diazzi School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester Manchester, UK
Alvise Sforza Tarabochia Department of Modern Languages School of European Culture and Languages University of Kent Canterbury, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-15149-2 ISBN 978-3-030-15150-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15150-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: estudio calamar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
The Years of Alienation in Italy project first took shape in 2014, when the editors of this volume began to discuss the possibility of organizing a conference on the cultural representations of the notion of alienation in Italy. The initial idea was to establish a dialogue among scholars who would explore, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the social and psychological implications of the concept in question. Our, and our speakers’, goal was twofold: first, to tackle the notion of alienation in spatial terms, by examining the way in which literary and cinematic depictions of the factory and the asylum frequently blurred the dividing line between industrial alienation and clinical madness; secondly, to investigate the specificities of an Italian approach to alienation by interpreting the ubiquitous presence of the term in social and cultural discourses, in the light of the country’s troubled history in the 1960s and 1970s. The project took a more concrete form in 2015 when a two-day works
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