Italy’s Divided Memory

J. Foot

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English

Palgrave
01 November 2011

History; European history; History: earliest times to present day; Social & cultural history

Series: Italian and Italian American Studies

This book argues that contemporary Italian history has been marked by a tendency towards divided memory. Events have been interpreted in contrasting ways, and the facts themselves often contested. Moreover, with so little agreement over what happened, and why it happened, it has been extremely difficult to create any consensus around memory. These divisions have been seen at all levels, but take on particular importance when linked to the great traumatic and life-changing events of the Twentieth century - war, terrorism, disaster - but can also be applied to more cultural fields such as sport and everyday life. Social change also has an impact on memory. This book will take the form of a voyage through Italy (and into Italy's past), looking at stories of divided memory over various periods in the twentieth century. These stories will be interwoven with analysis and discussion.

By: J. Foot
Imprint: Palgrave
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9780230120495
ISBN 10: 0230120490
Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
Publication Date: 01 November 2011
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Divided Memory. Theory, Methodology, Practice World War One. Monument wars, Unknown Soldiers and Open-Air Cemetries Fascist Memories, Memories of Fascism Italian Wartime Camps, Italians in Wartime Camps. Traces, Memories, Silences, 1940-2008 1940-1943. Victory, Occupation, Defeat, Collapse, Memory Nazi Massacres and Divided Memory. Stories, Causes, Scapegoats, Memoryscapes The Resistance. Three Wars, Many Memories, Many Silences The Strategy of Tension and terrorism. Piazza Fontana and 'The Moro Case'

Reviews for Italy’s Divided Memory

<p>“Foot offers a fascinating new perspective on modern Italian history and historiography, amounting to something like an Italian version of the ‘culture wars.’  Italy since unification has lived a split history, punctuated again and again by division, strife, and civil conflict. Foot shows how these civil wars have haunted the nation long after the event through decades-long ‘memory wars,’ evident in public discourse and politics, in parks, streets and squares, monuments and memorial sites throughout the peninsula. Written in the light of the most sophisticated recent work on memory and oral history, and picking up on the furious controversies over the divided memory of the anti-Fascist Resistance, Foot’s book teases out the extraordinary play of contradiction and silence in history and memory. This is an extremely suggestive and rich work.”--Robert S. C. Gordon, Cambridge University<p>“In the case of Italy, Foot insists at the out