Houses, Barracks, Graveyards and Breweries. The Out-of-trench Space in Great War’s Literature

Authors

  • Mimmo Cangiano Colgate University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i5.8783

Keywords:

Great War, trenches, trauma, nationalism, technology

Abstract

The representation of the life in the trenches during the Great War has always been an epitome for the trauma. Yet, my article aims at focusing, in a comparative framework, on the trauma’s processing that took place, narratively, in spaces at the side of the trenches, highlighting how this change of focus helped the authors to reflect on the indescribable shock expressed by the trenches themselves. This change of focus, I argue, was necessary for processing exactly that trauma related to the new – technological and Taylorist – nature of the conflict.

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Author Biography

Mimmo Cangiano, Colgate University

Mimmo Cangiano teaches at Colgate University. He has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a Lauro De Bosis Postdoctoral to Harvard University. He has published the volumes L'Uno e il molteplice nel giovane Palazzeschi (Florence, Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2011); La nascita del modernismo italiano (1903-1922). Philosophies of Crisis, History and Literature (Macerata, Quodlibet, 2018), and The Wreckage of Philosophy. Carlo Michelstaedter and the Limits of Bourgeois Thought (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2019); and essays dedicated to Pirandello, Papini, Soffici, Prezzolini, Boine, Michelstaedter, Slataper, Malaparte, Sanguineti, Ginzburg, Wu Ming, Sorrentino and the early Austrian 20th century (as well as some works on Gramsci and the young Lukács) in some of the most important Italian, English and American reviews.

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Published

2021-12-20

How to Cite

Cangiano, M. (2021). Houses, Barracks, Graveyards and Breweries. The Out-of-trench Space in Great War’s Literature. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (5), 25–45. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i5.8783

Issue

No. 5 (2021): Historical event, collective trauma and spatiality in contemporary literature and arts

Section

Sezione monografica

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