Fascism in Popular Memory
The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class
Part of Studies in Modern Capitalism
- Author: Luisa Passerini
- Date Published: June 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521108782
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This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920, which are combined with sources such as police reports, documentary films and judicial documents. The interviewees recount their visions of life, of history, and of themselves; they call to memory the fascist period, and the ambivalent relationship between the Duce and the masses. A picture of resistance emerges, through such minor episodes as jokes and graffiti, wearing a red tie or whistling an old socialist tune, and through major issues such as abortions carried out in direct opposition to state propaganda. Acquiescence is also recalled, however, in the enrolment of children in fascist youth organisations or in the use of new state-controlled social services. The final chapter reconstructs an event that acquired great symbolic meaning: the eloquent and unexpected silence of the Fiat workers before Mussolini in 1939 at the inauguration of the Miraflori factory.
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521108782
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Oral Sources and the analysis of Cultural Identities:
1. Memories of self- autobiography and self-representation
Part II. Oral Sources and the History of Grass-Roots Cultural Forms:
2. Fascism and the symbolic order in everyday life
Part III. Oral Sources and the History of the events of Everyday Life:
3. Forms of social acceptance of Fascism
4. Resistance to demographic policy
5. Mussolini's visit to Mirafiori
Appendix
Notes
Index.
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