Remembering fascism: Polyphony and its absence in contemporary Italian-Scottish and Italian-Welsh narrative

Wren-Owens, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1053-4482 2015. Remembering fascism: Polyphony and its absence in contemporary Italian-Scottish and Italian-Welsh narrative. Journal of Romance Studies 15 (1) , pp. 73-90. 10.3828/jrs.15.1.73

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Abstract

This article brings together recent scholarship on the re-memorializing of World War Two and fascism across Europe, particularly in the Italian context, and historical analysis of the British-Italian experience of the war and preceding growth of fascism. Building on Ugolini's 2011 questioning of whether the Italian-Scottish community has been romanticized, it proposes a new line of inquiry into the ways in which the changing memories are articulated in cultural production, focusing on a comparative analysis of Italian-Welsh and Italian-Scottish writing in a sustained way for the first time. Drawing on Bakhtin's (2002) concepts of polyphony and heteroglossia, the article analyses whether the voices which populate recent texts permit the emergence of a multiplicity of languages and ideologies, challenging the dominant narrative of the British-Italian experience of interwar fascistization and World War Two that has prevailed since 1945.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
ISSN:	1473-3536
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 09:08
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/73445

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