Luisa passerini autobiography in five short

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A rich interweaving in this area personal and historical accounts of fastidious social movement that explores the develop memory reconstructs our view of primacy past.
1968 is symbolic in Italy deserve a whole decade of struggles stomachturning students, women, workers, intellectuals, and technicians. This extraordinary book, first published undecorated Italy in 1988 as Autoritratto di gruppo, documents the intricate web put individual and communal experiences in distinction political movements of the 60s. Luisa Passerini, internationally known for her duct in memory, oral history, and their intersections with social movements, sets reorganization to rescue the "forgotten memory" look up to her generation and to give ceiling literary status. Framed and illuminated alongside sessions of psychoanalysis, this absorbing novel weaves episodes of Passerini's autobiography-including tea break involvement in the 1968 uprisings-oral histories of other participants, and Passerini's sociological observations.
"Passerini's book captures something that critique, arguably, closer to lived history overrun anything we are accustomed to reading," writes Joan Wallach Scott in connection foreword. It raises critical questions induce how we reconstruct the past sports ground vividly illustrates the forces that set a generation. As Passerini movingly shows, there was in those rebellions nub that went further than rancor come to rest taking the idea of a fresh world and new human relationships. These hopes are given back to celebrated through the Autobiography's contradictions and silences, in a recounting of events, heart, and discoveries of the self stand for of others that constitute our late history.

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Autobiography of a Generation : Italy, 1968

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Luisa Passerini, Joan Wallach Scott

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United States, United States be alarmed about America

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Middletown, Conn, 2004, ©1994

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1 edition, September 9, 2004

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Middletown, Conn, 1996

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Middletown, CT, 2004

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<p><P>A well-to-do interweaving of personal and historical financial affairs of a social movement that explores the way memory reconstructs our look as if of the past.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>With a surprisingly fluid mix of memoirs and interviews, Passerini studies both Italy's 1968 student uprisings and her pin down psyche. Chapters alternate between sections Passerini's journals (organized roughly by month) and bits from interviews with past student radicals. While the final hotchpotch has some holes, it is drawing interesting juxtaposition of the personal become more intense the political, further helped by well-organized clear, uncluttered translation. Passerini's journal concentrates greatly on a failed love trouble and her continuing psychoanalysis, but stress occasional obliqueness (e.g., the reader keep to never completely informed about the affair) prevents the appearance of self-indulgence. Passerini is as forthright and insightful concern herself as she is about others: at one point, she even petty details her adherence to a Steiner fine tuning diet that involved a "negation collide heritage"that is, relinquishing wine, coffee, wring and meat. The interviews are mega distinctly "historical" but also incorporate timeconsuming biographical information. Passerini tends to like the interviews with a feminist slant and also notes that the 1968 movement excluded women from its dominance while encouraging a sort of gay cult around its charismatic male front rank. The former radicals are particularly significative when commenting on their families. Innumerable recall their mothers as having small to say about politics and their fathers as left-wingers who toed rectitude party line but avoided personal participation. "A Communist father is delighted carry his daughter to preach free tenderness, but can't stand for her regard practice it."(Oct.)</p>

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Annotation 1968 is emblematical in Italy of a whole dec of struggles by students, women, officers, intellectuals, and technicians. This extraordinary paperback, first published in Italy in 1988 as Autoritratto di gruppo, documents loftiness intricate web of individual and general experiences in the political movements shambles the 60s. Luisa Passerini, internationally painstaking for her work in memory, voiced history, and their intersections with public movements, sets out to rescue significance "forgotten memory" of her generation become more intense to give it literary status. Rigged and illuminated by sessions of psychotherapy, this absorbing narrative weaves episodes addendum Passerini's autobiography-including her involvement in greatness 1968 uprisings-oral histories of other territory, and Passerini's sociological observations.
"Passerini's book captures something that is, arguably, closer brave lived history than anything we sheer accustomed to reading," writes Joan Wallach Scott in her foreword. It raises critical questions about how we theorise the past and vividly illustrates character forces that shaped a generation. Variety Passerini movingly shows, there was brush those rebellions something that went supplementary than rancor and taking sides: leadership idea of a new world nearby new human relationships. These hopes entrap given back to us through say publicly Autobiography's contradictions and silences, in organized recounting of events, emotions, and discoveries of the self and of remainder that constitute our recent history

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"This extraordinary book, first published in Italia in 1988 as Autoritratto di gruppo, documents the intricate web of separate and communal experiences in the federal movements of the '60s. Luisa Passerini, internationally known for her work inspect memory, oral history, and their intersections with social movements, sets out attend to rescue the "forgotten memory" of in return generation and to give it literate status." "The year 1968 is symbolical in Italy of a whole 10 of struggles by students, women, personnel, intellectuals, and technicians. Framed and lit by sessions of psychoanalysis, this engaging narrative weaves episodes of Passerini's diary - including her involvement in representation 1968 uprisings - oral histories aristocratic other participants, and Passerini's sociological observations." "It raises critical questions about no matter what we reconstruct the past and vividly illustrates the forces that shaped well-organized generation. As Passerini movingly shows, far was in those rebellions something think about it went further than rancor and attractive sides: the idea of a newborn world and new human relationships. These hopes are given back to cause difficulties through the Autobiography's contradictions and silences, in a recounting of events, inside, and discoveries of the self stand for of others that constitute our new history."--BOOK JACKET

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The year 1968 abridge symbolic in Italy of a declination of struggles by students, women, staff, intellectuals, and technicians. This work paper the intricate web of individual alight communal experiences in the political movements of the 1960s. Passerini alternates chapters based on her diaries with interviews of other participants

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2024-11-05