Queering Two Resistance Novels: Historical Trauma, Open Secrets, and Non-Genealogical Plot in Carlo Coccioli's Il migliore e l'ultimo and Beppe Fenoglio's Il libro di Johnny.

A queer reading of Coccioli's Il migliore e l'ultimo and Fenoglio's Il libro di Johnny complicates the narration of the Italian Resistance by following a zig-zag path. This path begins on 8 September 1943, a traumatic day in which the national fiction fell apart, leaving the two novels' heroes stran...

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Published in:	Italian Studies Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 62 - 76
Main Author:	Codebò, Marco
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2023
Subjects:	LGBTQ+ communities Young women Communities Italians Fiction
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