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Emotions and gender in oral history: narrating Italy's 1968.
- Source :
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Modern Italy . May2012, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p209-221. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The year 1968 was and remains an emotion-laden topic in Italy, and yet few historians have used emotions to parse the history and memory of this period. This paper draws on a collection of interviews with former activists in the student movement and the New Left to explore the ways in which expressions of feeling in life-history narratives can flag up possible lines of difference in women's and men's stories. It draws on three emotive themes – rebellion, violence and liberation – to explore the interaction between gender, feeling, narrative, and what the author calls the ‘third person in the room’: meta-narratives of 1960s activism that can exert a powerful weight on the interview, blending and blurring the lines of individual and collective experience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13532944
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Modern Italy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 74550455
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2012.665284