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 |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | 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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