Strangers at Home - Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination (Hardcover, New)

Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s to the enactment of the Fascist racial laws in 1938. She shows how the literature of that period contradicts the popular belief that anti-Semitism simply did not exist in Italy until late in the Fascist period. Gunzberg examines writers from Varese and Bresciani in the first half of the 19th century to Carli, Puccini and Callegari in the 1930s who consistently depicted Jewish characters as strange and separate. The study reveals that Fascism's anti-Semitism was anything but contrary to traditional Italian attitudes.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1992
First published:	December 1992
Authors:	Lynn M. Gunzberg
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	326
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-07840-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Promotions
LSN:	0-520-07840-3
Barcode:	9780520078406

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