Margins are central rather then peripheral to defining political identities. Italian national identity, though often seen as a fragile construct, is by no means unique in this regard. National identities must be constantly in question in order to thrive. Three geopolitical moments or forces are identified as having contributed at different times and in distinctive ways to the spatial construction of Italian identity: the border question, the immigrant/emigrant experience, and the North-South regional division.
Italy's Cold War cultural contest for the hearts and minds of Italian women was a three way struggle between the Catholic Church, the Italian Communists, and the United States. The arrival of American consumer products and models in postwar Italy and their growing influence on upper to middle-class, and eventually working-class women, provided the two domestic groups, who previously had been engaged in a bipolar struggle with each other, with a common enemy - the materialistic, immoral, and avaricious "American way of life" as represented in the products and models that belonged to its consumer capitalist society. The Catholics and Communists employed their popular magazines Famiglia Cristiana and Noi Donne, respectively, in this fight against American consumerism. This article examines how Famiglia Cristiana and Noi Donne responded to the challenges posed by the increasing presence of American consumer culture, specifically in the areas of beauty, and entertainment and celebrity, in Italian women's lives. It argues that, far from an outright rejection, the two publications included American consumer modernity into their pages and adapted it to fit their visions of the ideal postwar Italian woman. They mediated the influence and novelty of the American consumer culture, offering selected criticism and praise that were in line with important Catholic and Communist beliefs, such as modesty and religious morality, and collectivism, equality, and financial morality, respectively. Therefore, the women promoted in these two magazines were modern, consuming women that remained loyal to the core ideological beliefs of the Church and Communists.
This unapologetic, vigorous, and sensible poetic contemplationrevisits some of the most tragic events that afflicted humanity during thetwentieth century. Originating from a personal urgency to evaluate the experience of human existence and the historical calamities that bear everlasting consequences, the poems, better yet chronicles, which comprise this volume daringly examine the fear and discomfort that surround these disquieting skeletons of the past.
Family relationships are consistently represented and problematized in Italian literature, theater, art, music, television and cinema, whether those relationships are between husband and wife, mother and daughter, father and son, siblings, or any combination of the above. Italy also has an outstanding tradition of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists who have tracked the role of the Italian family through the centuries, describing and analyzing its idiosyncrasies, mutations, and connections with specific geographical, political, and religious contexts as well as criminal behavior and phenomena such as \u201Camoral familism.\u201D
Italy has long been defined by its contradictions. From the irreligious popes of the Middle Ages to the modern nation\u2019s patchwork union, Italy has been seen as a nation of paradoxes and polarities. To better understand these contrasts, Carte Italiane is pleased to publish \u201CItalian Polarities: Integrity and Corruption, Morality and Transgression.\u201D
This issue seeks to explore the ways in which certain opposing notions \u2013 integrity versus corruption, morality versus transgression \u2013 have shaped Italy, and how Italians have lived, negotiated, and investigated these dichotomies. Specifically, this issue examines how these conflicting ideas have coexisted in the minds of Italians throughout history. How were poets like Petrarch and Dante able to reconcile their transcendent faith with their earthly desires? What effect did the decadence of the medieval Church have on Italian religiosity? Why did Italians so readily accept the limits of Mussolini\u2019s totalitarian moral system? And what have marginalized authors done to transgress these boundaries? How is Italy still struggling to reconcile its history of domineering patriarchy with feminist and student movements? The papers in this issue seek to address the intersections of integrity/corruption and morality/transgression in the Italian context from the Middle Ages to today.
A partire dalle riflessioni di Adriana Cavarero nel saggio \"Inclinazioni, Critica della rettitudine\", l\u2019articolo propone una rilettura di Variazioni belliche: l'io poetico rosselliano \u00E8 un soggetto vulnerabile, \"inclinato\" verso gli altri, gli emarginati, gli ultimi, \"i poveri e i malati di mente\" con i quali si identifica proprio perch\u00E9 ne condivide il destino. Quella di Rosselli \u00E8 una scrittura del trauma che rivendica la necessit\u00E0 di un\u2019etica relazionale che si opponga alla logica capitalista e patriarcale della violenza.
Nella narrativa di Rigoni Stern la Grande Guerra rappresenta un evento-chiave nella trasformazione identitaria della \u201Cpiccola patria\u201D dell\u2019Altipiano di Asiago. Questo luogo, distrutto dal passaggio del fronte nel 1916-1918, diventa oggetto di un discorso nostalgico e mitico. Rigoni Stern guarda al conflitto come il confine fra due diverse temporalit\u00E0: quella \u201Clunga\u201D della tradizione, integrata nella natura e nel paesaggio, e quella \u201Cbreve\u201D della storia che passa e distrugge. La memoria si integra con la storia in una riflessione etica sulla guerra come evento che infrange le leggi arcaiche da cui dipende l\u2019ordine delle cose. Rigoni Stern, quindi, trasfigura la storia della Grande Guerra in mito, non per\u00F2 falsificando l\u2019essenza storica in una rappresentazione consolatrice, bens\u00EC ricercando il senso di un evento che ha avuto conseguenze profonde sulla comunit\u00E0 dell\u2019Altipiano.
In the works of Mario Rigoni Stern the Great War represents a key-event in shaping the identity of the \u201Csmall Fatherland\u201D of the Asiago Highland. This, devastated by the passage of the front in 1916-1918, becomes the object of a nostalgic and mythical discourse. Rigoni Stern conceives the conflict as the border between two different temporalities: the \u201Clong\u201D one of tradition, which is integrated with nature and landscape; and the \u201Cshort\u201D one of history that passes by and destroys. Memory combines itself with history in an ethical reflection about war as an event that breaches the archaic laws on which the order of life and things depends. Therefore, Rigoni Stern transfigures history into myth, not by falsifying history through a consolatory representation, but by looking for the meaning of a historical event that deeply affected the community of the Highland.
Il saggio prende in esame l\u2019internamento dei militari italiani nei Lager del Terzo Reich secondo la prospettiva etico-religiosa: vi \u00E8 un\u2019idea nuova di modernit\u00E0 che s\u2019affaccia in quegli anni, un\u2019inedita e vorticosa riconfigurazione dei rapporti fra etica, religione e societ\u00E0, avviata dalla congiuntura bellica, a cui le vicende degli italiani prigionieri oltre il filo spinato non appaiono estranee. Il radicamento della Chiesa cattolica e della figura del sacerdote negli universi simbolici che alimentano e formano l\u2019identit\u00E0 italiana emergono con nettezza scorrendo le memorie dei soldati italiani. Si assiste ad una progressiva erosione del tasso di \u00ABsacralit\u00E0 separata\u00BB. Di rado il clero \u00E8 percepito cos\u00EC vicino dal suo popolo. Guerra e prigionia stracciano il velo di separatezza che tradizionalmente accompagna la figura del sacerdote, generando un\u2019esperienza di condivisione che anticipa concretamente temi al centro del Concilio Vaticano II. E del papato di Francesco. Di straordinaria attualit\u00E0. Anche cos\u00EC si \u00E8 declinata la relazione fra cristianesimo e modernit\u00E0, tutt\u2019altro che al singolare. Sono vicende che rappresentano il tassello di un pi\u00F9 ampio affresco storico inteso a comprendere i sentimenti, le attese e le speranze di quella parte di italiani coinvolti nella fase pi\u00F9 torbida e amara della guerra, appartenenti ad una generazione posta di fronte ad una grande svolta della storia, che cerc\u00F2 di pensare e agire (scegliere) in modo responsabile di fronte all\u2019avvento di qualcosa di nuovo, che non poteva esaurirsi nell\u2019ambito delle alternative possibili al loro tempo. In questo specchio \u00E8 possibile leggere una parte dell\u2019intera storia repubblicana.
Italy's Cold War cultural contest for the hearts and minds of Italian women was a three way struggle between the Catholic Church, the Italian Communists, and the United States. The arrival of American consumer products and models in postwar Italy and their growing influence on upper to middle-class, and eventually working-class women, provided the two domestic groups, who previously had been engaged in a bipolar struggle with each other, with a common enemy - the materialistic, immoral, and avaricious \"American way of life\" as represented in the products and models that belonged to its consumer capitalist society. The Catholics and Communists employed their popular magazines Famiglia Cristiana and Noi Donne, respectively, in this fight against American consumerism. This article examines how Famiglia Cristiana and Noi Donne responded to the challenges posed by the increasing presence of American consumer culture, specifically in the areas of beauty, and entertainment and celebrity, in Italian women's lives. It argues that, far from an outright rejection, the two publications included American consumer modernity into their pages and adapted it to fit their visions of the ideal postwar Italian woman. They mediated the influence and novelty of the American consumer culture, offering selected criticism and praise that were in line with important Catholic and Communist beliefs, such as modesty and religious morality, and collectivism, equality, and financial morality, respectively. Therefore, the women promoted in these two magazines were modern, consuming women that remained loyal to the core ideological beliefs of the Church and Communists.
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