Memory, History and a Mother’s Resistant Mourning in Giuseppe Dessì’s Il disertore

By Amy Boylan

This essay proposes a re-reading of Giuseppe Dessì’s Il disertore (1961) in the context of collective memory theory and postmodern concerns with mourning and melancholia. Through an examination of the way Dessì represents the interaction between…

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