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FatherMotherland · Fatherland as Motherland. Unstable Gender and Nation in Italian Great War Literature

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2015-09-01 → 2017-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 183 455 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Връзката между национализма и представите за мъжествеността в италианската литература от Първата световна война се анализира чрез примери като воини-фантазии и образа на майчината земя. Това помага за по-доброто разбиране на връзката между войната и фашистките идеали.

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Fatherland as Motherland. Unstable Gender and Nation in Italian Great War Literature

FatherMotherland is an interdisciplinary project. Its main aim is to explore the interplay between nationalism and gender in Italian Great War literature by bringing together literary studies, political history, and gender and cultural studies. An extraordinarily heterogeneous corpus in terms of genres, agents, and ideological backgrounds, Italian literature of the Great War is not only a compelling historical document but also a layered site of invention in which nationalism and, more generally, patriotic faith underwent a powerful process of re-writing and deconstruction. Becoming male is a crucial chapter of the pedagogy of the nation and a main concern expressed in war writings by both male and female writers. From ultra-manly warrior fantasies to the solace of brotherly comradeship, from the masculinizing of the image of the motherland to the defeated virility haunting the narrative of war prisoners and veterans, war literature puts forth a broad range of conflicting masculine discourses, too often flattened on the gendered culture and biopolitics of the fascist Ventennio. The project developed along three main lines: - It provided a new interpretation of the representation of manliness and virility in Italian Great War literature as both supporting the official discourse of nationalism and undermining it. - It studied a wide range of propagandistic materials and analysed their symbolic contents and rhetorical features. - It proposed a new interpretation of the relationship between war and fascist masculinity. While giving a fresh contribution to the diverse set of transnational research actions occurring on the occasion of WWI centenary, the project had also the ambition to produce far-reaching impact on the general public by fostering a better understanding of the gendered character of modern nationalism and its cultural roots against the backdrop of European integration.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

'Fatherland as Motherland. Unstable Gender and Nation in Italian Great War Literature' is an interdisciplinary project exploring the interplay between nationalism and gender in Italian Great War literature. By tackling a diverse range of texts (pamphlets, prose fiction, memoirs, diaries, propagandistic publications), it will analyse gender patterns at work in Italian Great War literature and disclose their unstable relationship with nationalist ideology. WWI literature provides an extraordinary testing ground for exploring nationalist discourse in its ambivalences in that it absorbs its tenet, while reshaping it and releasing its instabilities. Such an approach proves highly needed: Italian WWI literature has been usually employed to describe the passage to the fascist period as if it were a homogeneous ideological set that could explain the rise of fascism. FatherMotherland will argue against both these premises (ideological stability of Italian WWI literature; its consistency with fascist culture) by means of an inquiry focusing on gender issues. The project will develop along three main lines: 1. The representation of manliness and virility; 2. The rhetorical features of the icon of the motherland; 3. The re-fashioning of the war literature canon in the fascist period. FatherMotherland has the ambition to foster a better understanding of the cultural roots of nationalism, which today threatens the process of European integration.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH · EdinburghКоординаторОбединеното кралство