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Memory and History in 20th Century Italy
Course code: ITAL4914.
Course unit value: 0.5.
This course aims to provide an extensive introduction to themes related to the study of memory, memories and history with reference to twentieth-century Italy. Drawing on recent discussion in history and anthropology, the course begins with a study of methodology before moving on to more specific case studies in various periods of Italian history.
Assessment: two
assessed 3000 word essays (50% each), one in-class presentation.
Tutor: Dr Eleanor Chiari.
Preparatory reading and set texts:
- A. Portelli, What makes oral history different in R. Perks and A. Thomson, The oral history reader (London, Routledge, 2006, pp. 32-42).
- P. Connerton, How societies remember (CUP, Cambridge, 1989).
- Primo Levi, I sommersi e I salvati (Turin, Einaudi, 2007). The Drowned and the Saved (Vintage, 1989).
