Terrorism, Italian Style

Terrorism, Italian Style
Author: Ruth S. Glynn
Publisher: Igrs, University of London
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780854572281

The legacy of Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Italian imagination to an extraordinary degree. Cinema has played a particularly prominent role in articulating the ongoing impact of the anni di piombo and in defining the ways in which Italians remember and work through the atrocities and traumas of those years. Terrorism, Italian Style brings together some of the most important scholars contributing to the study of cinematic representations of the anni di piombo. Drawing on a comparative approach and a broad range of critical perspectives (including genre theory, family and gender issues, trauma theory and ethics), the book addresses an extensive range of films produced between the 1970s and the present and articulates their significance and relevance to contemporary Italian society and culture. Ruth Glynn is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol.Giancarlo Lombardi is Professor of Italian Literature at the City University of New York. Alan O'Leary is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leeds.

Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture

Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture
Author: R. Glynn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-02-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137341998

Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma.

Imagining Terrorism

Imagining Terrorism
Author: Pierpaolo Antonello
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351563173

No other European country experienced the disruption of political and everyday life suffered by Italy in the so-called 'years of lead' (1969-c.1983), when there were more than 12,000 incidents of terrorist violence. This experience affected all aspects of Italian cultural life, shaping political, judicial and everyday language as well as artistic representation of every kind. In this innovative and broad-ranging study, experts from the fields of philosophy, history, media, law, cinema, theatre and literary studies trace how the experience and legacies of terrorism have determined the form and content of Italian cultural production and shaped the country's way of thinking about such events?

Ending Terrorism in Italy

Ending Terrorism in Italy
Author: Anna Cento Bull
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-06-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135040796

Ending Terrorism in Italy analyses processes of disengagement from terrorism, as well as the connected issues of reconciliation, truth and justice. It examines in a critical and original way how terrorism came to an end in Italy (Part I), and the legacy it has left behind (Part II). The book interrogates a wide array of published memoirs and a considerable number of new face-to-face interviews with both former terrorists and first and second generation victims In the last two decades, and especially in recent years, former extreme-right terrorists in Italy have started to talk about their past involvement in terrorist violence, including, for the first time, acts of violence which have for decades been considered taboo, that is to say, bomb attacks against innocent civilians. These narratives add to the perspectives offered by members of left-wing terrorist groups, such as the Red Brigades and Prima Linea. Surprisingly, these narratives have not been systematically examined, yet they form a unique and extremely rich source of first-hand testimony, providing invaluable insights into processes of youth radicalization and de-radicalization, the social re-integration of ex-terrorists, as well as personal and collective healing. Even less attention has been paid to the victims’ narratives or stories. Indeed, the views and activities of the victims and their associations have been seriously neglected in the scholarly literature on terrorism, not just in Italy, but elsewhere in Europe. The book therefore examines the perspectives of the victims and relatives of victims of terrorism, who over the years have formed dedicated associations and campaigned relentlessly to obtain justice through the courts, with little or no support from the state and, especially in the case of the bombing massacres, with increasing awareness that the state played a role in thwarting the course of justice. Ending Terrorism in Italy will be of interest to historians, social scientists and policy makers as well as students of political violence and post-conflict resolution. .

Red Brigades

Red Brigades
Author: Robert C Meade
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1989-12-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349203041

Looks at the history and motivation of the Red Brigades, recounts the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, and assesses Italy's anti-terrorist efforts.

Imagining Terrorism

Imagining Terrorism
Author: Pierpaolo Antonello
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351563165

No other European country experienced the disruption of political and everyday life suffered by Italy in the so-called 'years of lead' (1969-c.1983), when there were more than 12,000 incidents of terrorist violence. This experience affected all aspects of Italian cultural life, shaping political, judicial and everyday language as well as artistic representation of every kind. In this innovative and broad-ranging study, experts from the fields of philosophy, history, media, law, cinema, theatre and literary studies trace how the experience and legacies of terrorism have determined the form and content of Italian cultural production and shaped the country's way of thinking about such events?

Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism

Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism
Author: David Ward
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319466488

This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism. It explores how contemporary Italian writers have developed narrative strategies that enable them to represent the fraught experience of Italian terrorism in the 1970s. In its conclusions, the book suggests that to meet the challenge of representation posed by terrorism fiction rather than fact is the writer’s best friend and most effective tool.

Democracy, Italian Style

Democracy, Italian Style
Author: Joseph LaPalombara
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300044119

Analyzes Italian politics, argues that crises that threaten to destroy the government actually make democracy there stronger, and discusses the Italian political parties