1. Le scritture dei prigionieri italiani nella Grande Guerra.
- Author
-
Mamone, Graziano
- Subjects
- *
UNPUBLISHED materials , *CONCENTRATION camps , *AUTOBIOGRAPHY , *MEMOIRS , *HISTORIOGRAPHY - Abstract
The 600,000 Italians detained during the First World War produced a great variety of texts (letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies and recipe books) that historiography has not yet studied with sufficient depth and rigour. Starting with a psychological portrait of prisoners' conditions in the concentration camp, the present paper aims to provide an organic review of these written testimonies, analysing in detail their morphology, contents and genetic context. The essay also describes the advancement of studies and goes into the main methodological issues, using mostly unpublished material from the Ligurian Archives of Popular Writing of Genoa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2019