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Bringing Testimony, Transforming a Canon: Fiction and Reality in Italian Women Writers of the Holocaust

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Stefania Lucamante will discuss how Italian women writers transmitted a gendered perspective on the devastating effects of Italy’s 1938 racial laws and the Holocaust. She will probe how their works validate notions of collaboration and understanding between fictional writing and the (gendered) rewriting of historical events. Dr. Lucamante completed her graduate studies in Rome […]