TY - JOUR
T1 - Conflict, mobility and alterity
T2 - World War II and the Italians in Eric Newby and Iris Origo
AU - Ross, Silvia
PY - 2012/6/1
Y1 - 2012/6/1
N2 - In the Italy of the Second World War, conflict brings about a remarkable migration of various groups which come into contact with one another: local Italians meet soldiers, partisans, prisoners, sfollati, Germans, ex-Fascists, Allies, and representatives from a myriad of populations who transit up and down Italy as a result of hostilities between nations and political factions. This essay seeks to interpret the effects of conflict on the textual representation of Italy, and in particular rural Italy, by English-speaking writers during World War II. The analysis examines two representative texts, War in Val d'Orcia (1947), authored by Iris Origo, a privileged Anglo-American woman (who herself had a hybrid identity), married to an Italian nobleman, and Love and War in the Apennines (1971) by Eric Newby, a British soldier who subsequently became an established travel writer and journalist. Drawing on theories on travel, mobility, identity and alterity, this essay compares the two writers approaches to Italian (rural) Others, as well as to the representatives of various non-Italian nationalities they encounter in their wartime narratives.
AB - In the Italy of the Second World War, conflict brings about a remarkable migration of various groups which come into contact with one another: local Italians meet soldiers, partisans, prisoners, sfollati, Germans, ex-Fascists, Allies, and representatives from a myriad of populations who transit up and down Italy as a result of hostilities between nations and political factions. This essay seeks to interpret the effects of conflict on the textual representation of Italy, and in particular rural Italy, by English-speaking writers during World War II. The analysis examines two representative texts, War in Val d'Orcia (1947), authored by Iris Origo, a privileged Anglo-American woman (who herself had a hybrid identity), married to an Italian nobleman, and Love and War in the Apennines (1971) by Eric Newby, a British soldier who subsequently became an established travel writer and journalist. Drawing on theories on travel, mobility, identity and alterity, this essay compares the two writers approaches to Italian (rural) Others, as well as to the representatives of various non-Italian nationalities they encounter in their wartime narratives.
KW - conflict
KW - genre
KW - Italy
KW - mobility
KW - the Other
KW - travel writing
KW - World War II
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84862150172
U2 - 10.1080/13645145.2012.682814
DO - 10.1080/13645145.2012.682814
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84862150172
SN - 1364-5145
VL - 16
SP - 149
EP - 162
JO - Studies in Travel Writing
JF - Studies in Travel Writing
IS - 2
ER -