Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age by Maria Anna Mariani

Italian Literature in the Nuclear AgeA Poetics of the Bystander\nAuthor(s): Maria Anna Mariani\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780192868855, 978-0192868855\nSynopsis\nItalian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. Host to hundreds of American atomic weapons while lacking a nuclear arsenal of its own, Italy's status was an ambiguous one: that of an unwilling--and in many ways passive--accomplice. Inspired by Seamus Heaney's dictum that \""there is no such thing as innocent by-standing,\"" the book frames Italy's fraught mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to rethink the role of the sidelined intellectual in the face of mass extinction. \n\nItalian Literature in the Nuclear Age includes discrete chapters on th.