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Honorable Mention for the 2019 American Association for Italian American Book Prize (20-21st Centuries)
Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.
The arrival of the Allies' global forces in an Italy torn by civil war brought together populations that had long mythologized one another, yet "liberation" did not prove to be the happy ending touted by official rhetoric. Instead of a "honeymoon," the Allied-Italian encounter in cities such as Naples and Rome appeared to be a lurid affair, where the black market reigned supreme and prostitution was the norm.
Informed by the historical context as well as by their respective traditions, these texts become more than mirrors of the encounter or generic allegories. Instead, they are sites in which to explore repressed traumas that inform how the occupation unfolded and is remembered, including the Holocaust, the American Civil War, and European colonialism, as well as individual traumatic events like the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine and the mass civilian rape near Rome by colonial soldiers
Contents
Preface ix
Introduction 1
1 Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory 17
2 "Liberated" Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini's
Paisà and Alfred Hayes's All Thy Conquests and The Girl
on the Via Flaminia 42
3 Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli's
"True" Romance Novels of Occupied Rome 66
4 A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns's The Gallery 91
5 Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of
Curzio Malaparte's La pelle 111
6 The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis's Naples '44 132
Epilogue 153
Acknowledgments 163
Notes 167
Works Cited 213
Index 231
