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Fragments of Impegno - Interpretations of Commitment in Contemporary Italian Narrative 1980-2000 (Paperback)
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Fragments of Impegno - Interpretations of Commitment in Contemporary Italian Narrative 1980-2000 (Paperback)
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With the "Tangentopoli" corruption scandals of the early 1990s,
Italy is purported recently to have experienced a period of
political change comparable to the period immediately following
World War II. This latter being the socio-political environment in
which the concept of "impegno" - political commitment - in
literature became current, this work asks whether an equivalent
moment of constitutional crisis in the 1990s has had a comparable
impact on perceptions of the role of the writer and of literature
in Italian society. This volume traces the development of "impegno"
(political commitment) in post-war Italian prose literature using
the metaphor of fragmentation: the monolithic notion of commitment
to an overarching political agenda has splintered, facilitating a
fragmentary attention to specific issues.Part One examines the
early "impegno" debate through the critical works of Vittorini,
Calvino and Pasolini, tracing it forward into the 1960s and 1970s.
The remaining three parts study in detail the "fragments of
impegno" offered by contemporary authors - Tabucchi, Ramondino, De
Carlo, Tondelli, Ballestra, and African immigrant writers,
including Fazel, Melliti and Methnani. This range of authors and
texts illustrates the ways in which socio-political issues are
explicitly or implicitly addressed, represented, or embedded in
contemporary Italian literature.
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