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Prison Terms »
Authors: Ellen Victoria Nerenberg
ISBN-13: 9780802035080, ISBN-10: 0802035086
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Date Published: June 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Ellen Victoria Nerenberg
ELLEN NERENBERG is Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University.
Book Synopsis
An analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, covering the last years of Fascism. Not limiting herself to prisons, Nerenberg also explores military barracks, convents, and brothels as carceral homologues.
Booknews
The progression of the multiform representation of prison in Italy between 1930 and 1960 is Nerenberg's (Romance languages and literatures, Wesleyan U.) concern here. She traces the evolution in thinking from the Fascist manifestation of power and ideology to the next, and past. Her study is about spaces, particularly enclosed spaces that hold the body in check and control it, within a particular historical and cultural context. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction: Prisons and Their Analogues | 3 |
| 2 | Barracks and Borders, Prisons and Masculinity | 29 |
| 3 | Penitents and Penitentiaries: Interstices, Resistance, Freedom | 61 |
| 4 | Love for Sale; or, That's Amore: Brothels, Prison, Revision | 105 |
| 5 | House Arrest | 137 |
| Notes | 177 | |
| Bibliography | 223 | |
| Index | 253 |
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