Undoing time : the cultural memory of an Italian prison / Eleanor Canright Chiari.
The walls of Le Nuove prison in Turin are scarred by graffiti, bullets and blood. Opened in 1870, Le Nuove was one of Italy's first panoptical prisons. During the Second World War it was occupied by the Nazis, who executed and deported anti-Fascist and Jewish prisoners held there. In the 1970s it housed left-wing 'terrorists', who spearheaded violent riots that spread to prisons across Italy. The prison staff became targets and four were shot dead. When Le Nuove finally closed down in October 2003, the memories of the tragic events that occurred there became obstacles to its demolition. Combining oral history, anthropology and micro-history, this book examines the cultural memory of Le Nuove via interviews, archives and the material traces left within the building itself. The volume examines issues such as the relationship between memory and place, forgetting, and the problems of a global cultural heritage increasingly focused on places of suffering. By following the architecture of the prison in her narrative, the author actively engages with the many layers of time competing to give meaning to the prison today, as well as addressing the hidden stories, myths and silences that condition any study of cultural memory.
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Oxford ; New York
: Peter Lang
, 2012
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| Umfang | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| ISBN | 1-299-42954-8 3-0353-0334-7 3-0343-0256-8 |
| ISSN | 1662-9108 ; |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Zusatzinfo | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Zusatzinfo | Contents; Acknowledgements; The Narrators; Introduction; A Brief History of Le Nuove; 1 The Cell; First Impressions; Home; Sex; Possessions; Coffee and Cigarettes; Prison Time; Breakdowns; 2 The Ramparts; The Prison Officer Syndrome; Guard-Prisoner Relations in the 1970's; A Body on the Ground: The Death of Giuseppe Lorusso; The Ex-Prison Officer Club; The Gold Medal: The Death of Lorenzo Cotugno; 3 The Roof; Writing on Prison Riots; On the Eve of Destruction: The Riots of 1969 and 1971; The Forgotten Riot of the Summer of 1976; 4 The Church; Padre Ruggero Cipolla; Padre Ruggero as Witness Padre Ruggero's Prison Museum Nuns; Nuns and the Second World War; 5 The Main Hall / The Tour; No Man Is an Island; Prisons as Heritage; Obliteration: Carandiru, Brazil; Designation: The Maze/Long Kesh, Northern Ireland; Rectification: Alcatraz, USA; Sanctification: Robben Island, South Africa; Discussion; Heritage, Suffering and Pity; 6 The Outer Walls; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index |
| Zusatzinfo | English |
| Serie/Reihe | Italian modernities ; ; v. 14. |
| Online-Zugang | Peter Lang ebooks EBS 2024 https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0334-6 |
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