Forging Shoah Memories

1. Introduction
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Part I. Survival and Representation of the Shoah in Italy

2. The Italian Shoah: Reception and Representation
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3. Not Only Memory: Narrating the Camp between Reality and Fiction
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4. The Power of Dignity, Or “Writers Out of Necessity”: The Case of Liana Millu and Edith Bruck
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5. Inside the D and Out of the Ghetto with the Bambine of Rome: Lia Levi, Rosetta Loy, and Giacoma Limentani
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Part II. “The World Must Be the Writer’s Concern”: La Storia According to Elsa Morante

6. Le Lacrime: Morante and Her Critics
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7. History and Stories: Historical Novels and the Danger of Disintegration
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Part III. Helena Janeczek: Understanding Jewish Memory from Lezioni di tenebra to Le rondini di Montecassino

8. The Burden of Memory: Lezioni di tenebra
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9. Tips against “Numbness” for New Generations: For a Collective Useful Memory of the Shoah and a Global Novel: Janeczek’s Postcolonial Thought
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10. Conclusions
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Keywords: History, European History, Modern History, Gender Studies, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Twentieth-Century Literature, European Literature