Description:
An analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, covering the last years of Fascism. Not limiting herself to prisons, Nerenberg also explores military barracks, convents, and brothels as carceral homologues.
Brief description: Ellen Nerenberg is Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University.
Review Quotes:
'Prison Terms makes it virtually impossible to think about Fascism and Democracy in Italy in quite the same ways that have been proposed before.'
--Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee