S. Lucamente & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Forging Shoah Memories 
Italian Women Writers, Jewish Identity, and the Holocaust

Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women’s literary representations and testimonies have not received their proper due. This project fills this gap by analyzing Italian women’s writing from a variety of genres, all set against a complex historical backdrop.

Table of Content

1. Women Writing the Shoah 2. Memories, Testimonies 3. Those Who Came Back to Write, or the ‘Writers out of Necessity’: Edith Bruck, 11153, and Liana Millu, 5384 4. The Bambine di Roma : Lia Levi, Rosetta Loy, Giacoma Limentani, and the Myth of Italiani, Brava Gente 5. The World Must Be the Writer’s Concern: Elsa Morante’s La Storia 6. ‘Daughters of the Holocaust’: Lezioni di tenebra and Jewish Identity according to Helena Janeczek

About the author

Stefania Lucamente is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the Catholic University of America, USA.