Stefano Bellin and Guido Bartolini are delighted to announce the publication of issue 42.2 of Italian Culture, entitled “Italian Amnesias: Multidimensional Forgetting in Contemporary Italy”. This special issue aims to map the construction of social forgetting in Italy’s cultural and public debates, explore its consequences throughout the decades, and identify attempts to counter it through forms of critical interaction that foster transcultural solidarity and responsibility. While the issue focuses mostly on the Italian cultural context, it offers concepts that might be useful for memory studies scholars working on other regions and cultures.

You can find all the articles here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yitc20/current

Table of Contents:

1. Stefano Bellin and Guido Bartolini, Italy’s Multidimensional Forgetting: Narratives, Contested Memories, and Solidarity (special issue introduction)
2. Pamela Ballinger, Remapping Italy’s Migrant and Migrated Archives: An Agenda
3. Guido Bartolini, Three Modalities of the Italian Memory of Fascism:Cronache di poveri amanti, La casa in collina, Tempo di uccidere, and the issue of Responsibility
4. Stefano Bellin, We Have Forgotten the Future: Cultural Memory and the Italian Left’s Horizon of Expectation
5. Charles Burdett and Gianmarco Mancosu, The Dialectics of (Post)Colonial Memory: Nostalgic Representations of the Imperial Experience in Contemporary Italy
6. Charles Leavitt, ‘In mezzo agli Africani’: Forgetting Fascist Colonialism in Natale al Campo 119
7. Marina Morani, Omitted Frames, Forgotten Citizens: A Critical Examination of the Cultural Politics of Citizenship in Contemporary Italy
8. Carla Panico, Colonialismo italiano e questione meridionale: amnesie, memorie competitive e alleanze intersezionali ai margini di una comunità immaginata bianca
9. Massimo Baioni, Memory and the Public Use of History in Today’s Italy
10. Camilla Hawthorne, Angelica Pesarini, and Barbara Ofosu-Somuah, Memory, Forgetfulness, and Multidimensional Acts of Resistance
11. Amy King, Pacifying the Nation? Youth, MSI Martyrs and Meloni’s Memory Politics