Fascism, the war, and structures of feeling in Italy, 1943-1945 : tales in chiaroscuro /
"The book examines the years immediately after the fall of the fascist regime in Italy. Drawing on personal diaries and correspondence written between 1943 and 1945, it asks: What did Italians feel and think about fascism as they witnessed the regime's demise? Did the historical circumstan...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Maps
- Introduction
- Betwixt Turns and Twists
- Of "Structures of Feeling" and the Past
- The Quandary of Experience
- Ordinary and Extraordinary
- Writing, Records, and Diaries: The Challenge of Authenticity
- Accounting, Value, and Aesthetic Laws: Rédacteurs and Auteurs
- Time and Narrative: Living in Time
- Everydayness and "Exception"
- The Case
- Chapters Outline
- 1. A Short, Long Summer
- Before the Fall
- War Is Over, or Is It? July 25
- An Unending Summer: September 8
- October 13: A Footnote?
- 2. Interpretive Ghosts
- Who Is the Enemy?
- Frolicking with the Fatherland
- Fascism, an Afterthought?
- 3. Every Day in the Everyday
- Along Came the Private
- Normalcy, Where Are Thou?
- Insanity by Reason of Indifference
- Exceptional Normalcy
- History, Power, Authority
- Styling Objectivity
- Closing In: A Roman Duet (In Place of an Epilogue)
- 4. The Diary as Alibi
- Why Write a Diary?
- "It all ended too suddenly, too simply."51
- In Solidarity: Fatherland Reconsidered
- Fascism, Fascism Not
- 5. The Personal and the Political
- Sentimental Fascism
- Fascist Who?
- Micropolitics: Glory and Misery of the Local
- Banality and Drama: Enduring Instability
- Conclusions
- Methodological Appendix
- Table of Diaries
- Bibliography
- Index