Liberation and literature: Naples 1944

Gatt-Rutter, John

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“…Il patriottismo del popolo italiano è tutto lì, nel pube. (65) [The first time I felt afraid I had caught the contagion, that I too had been stricken by the plague, was when I went with Jimmy to the "wig" shop. I felt humiliated by the loathsome disease in the very part of my anatomy which in an Italian is most sensitive-in the sexual organs.…”

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“…At the same time, however, the preference for the language of war over that of Occupation signals the important role played by Gennaro in breaching the divide between city and nation. For if, as Gatt-Rutter has observed, "named after the city's patron saint, Gennaro speaks with the city's voice," 65 then his is the voice of an Italianized Naples. Not only does his trajectory over the course of the play mirror that of Italy's struggle for maturity and dignity in the wake of World War I, fascism, and World War II, but his odyssey in the north as a prisoner of war and as witness to the conditions there also provides him with a keen understanding of the relationship between the two contexts.…”

Section: The Restoration Of Paternal Ordermentioning

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Naples and the Nation in Cultural Representations of the Allied Occupation

Glynn¹

2017

California Italian Studies

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The Allied Occupation in 1943-45 represents a key moment in the history of Naples and its relationship with the outside world. The arrival of the American Fifth Army on October 1, 1943 represented the military liberation of the city from both Nazi fascism and starvation, and inaugurated an extraordinary socio-cultural encounter between the international troops of the Allied forces and a war-weary population. The impact of that encounter may be traced in a small but significant corpus of cultural representations-memoirs, plays, films, and literary textsgenerated primarily by individuals who experienced the Occupation, either on the Italian side or as part of the Allied presence in the city. 1 Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in the corpus, especially in the United States, where the attention to Allied-Occupied Naples is undoubtedly bound up with memories-direct or second-hand-of the American presence in the city and with the contemporary experience of a new wave of US military occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The re-publication of John Horne Burns' The Gallery (2004) and Norman Lewis' Naples '44 (2002) was followed by a new translation of Curzio Malaparte's La pelle (2013), 2 and all three texts have been subject to widespread, prominent, and lengthy reviews in American newspapers and magazines, detailing the relationship between the texts and their historical context. 3 In Italy, where considerably less attention has been paid (in terms of cultural representation) to the Neapolitan experience of occupation than to events in the center-north of Italy in the same

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Section: Disease and Abjectionmentioning

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Section: The Restoration Of Paternal Ordermentioning

confidence: 99%