Ebook: Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy

Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.

Challenges canonical interpretations of important texts and reads them against little-studied material, such as diaries, obscure novels, and guidebooks provided to occupying soldiers