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13 May 2020

I guardiani della memoria

by Pisanty Valentina
I guardiani della memoria

Valentina Pisanty’s analysis is based on a painful, yet incontestable consideration: as the rhetoric of “the duty of memory” (of the Holocaust and other trauma) progressively establishes itself in Europe and United States, we are witnessing the exponential growth of racism and the return of xenophobic parties and movements. “Lest we forget” and “never again” are expressions now reduced to mantras of commemorative rhetoric.

It is time to face the reality of daily facts, about the re-emergence of racist violence, of references to Nazi symbols and negation theories. What has failed to work in the contribution given by Holocaust survivors?

  • Publishing house Bompiani
  • Year of publication 2020
  • Number of pages 256
  • ISBN 9788830102293
  • Foreign Rights Foreign Rights - Manuela Melato m.melato@giunti.it
  • Ebook disponibile
  • Price 13.00 €

Pisanty Valentina

Valentina Pisanty is Professor of Semiology at Bergamo University, and has written several essays on interpretative semiotics, fables, humour, political speech, rhetoric of racism, and memory. Bompiani has published Leggere la fiaba (1993), Semiotica e interpretazione with Roberto Pellerey (2004), La difesa della razza (2006), L’irritante questione delle camere a gas (1998, enriched edition 2014).

I guardiani della memoria
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