Women, Terror and Trauma in Italian Culture

意大利文化中的女性、恐怖和创伤

• 批准号: AH/E503942/1
• 负责人: Ruth Glynn
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE503942%2F1
• 关键词: Women; Terror; Trauma; Italian; Culture

Research Context:My research examines cultural representations of women, terror, and trauma in the context of domestic terrorism in Italy in the 1970s and beyond. It explores the ways in which Italian culture engages with and remembers the prolonged political violence and terrorism of the period known as the anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83). Its primary focus is on the ways in which women's active participation in political violence and terrorism in that period is articulated as collective and cultural trauma in memoir, fiction and film. The key issues I have explored cluster around the particular kind of trauma generated by female violence. I analyse how representations of women terrorists in the popular media and film may be read as trauma narratives, and compare these with recently published memoirs by female ex-terrorists, focusing on how they themselves articulate as trauma their own participation in political violence in the recent past.Aims and Objectives:The work I carried out while on research leave has advanced the first two sections of my longer-term research project, focusing on cinematic representations of women terrorists and the comparison between those cinematic representations and the self-representations by women terrorists in their recently published memoirs.This has involved:1. Carrying out primary research into cinematic representations of female terrorists, including a study of films held at theCinecitta studios in Rome. It resulted in a conference presentation and the subsequent publication of an article:-'Terrorism, a Female Malady'Submitted in August 2006 to Ruth Glynn, Giancarlo Lombardi and Alan O'Leary, Terrorism, Italian Style: CinematicRepresentations of Political Violence in Italy (2008).2. Writing up research already completed in two further articles:-'Through the Lens of Trauma: The Figure of the Female Terrorist in II prigioniero and Buongiorno, notte'Submission in October 2006 to Pierpaolo Antonello and Alan O'Leary (ed.), Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric andRepresentation of Political Violence in Italy, 1969-2005 (Legenda, 2008)-'Writing the Terrorist Self: Subalternity and the Female Perpetrator'Submission forthcoming in April 2007 to the journal, Modern Italy.3. Presenting four further, related conference papers.4. Co-organising an interdisciplinary conference in November 2006.Potential Applications and Benefits:My research will contribute significantly to understanding how Italian culture may be read as attempting to work through the collective trauma generated by the prolonged exposure to political violence in the anni di piombo. It is unique in providing a sustained reading of the anni di piombo as cultural trauma and in bringing to the contemporary re-examination of the period a focus on the particular trauma inflicted by women's participation in political violence and terrorism. In asking such questions as why the figure of the female terrorist has gained a heightened profile in recent culture and how the 'feminisation' of the terrorist figure impacts on the collective 'working through' of the traumatic past, my work will contribute not only to an understanding of the processes inherent in the Italian cultural memory of the anni di piombo and current explorations into around cinematic representations of violent women, but also to trauma studies: in this latter field, it will expose the implicit but unarticulated ideas about gender and violence within trauma theory and call for a more gender-sensitive approach to the trauma of political violence.

研究背景：我的研究考察了20世纪70年代及以后意大利国内恐怖主义背景下女性、恐怖和创伤的文化表征。它探索了意大利文化如何接触和记忆被称为Anni di Piombo(《领导的岁月》，约1969-83年)时期旷日持久的政治暴力和恐怖主义的方式。其主要关注点是在回忆录、小说和电影中，妇女积极参与政治暴力和恐怖主义的方式如何被表述为集体和文化创伤。我探讨的关键问题围绕着女性暴力造成的特定类型的创伤。我分析了大众媒体和电影中女性恐怖分子的表现如何被解读为创伤叙事，并将这些与最近出版的女性前恐怖分子的回忆录进行比较，重点放在她们自己如何将自己最近参与政治暴力的创伤表达为创伤。目的和目标：我在研究休假期间开展的工作推进了我较长期研究项目的前两部分，重点是女性恐怖分子的电影表现，以及这些电影表现与最近出版的回忆录中女性恐怖分子的自我表现之间的比较。这涉及：1.对女性恐怖分子的电影表现进行初步研究，包括在罗马Cinecitta电影制片厂举办的电影研究。它导致了一次会议演示，并随后发表了一篇文章：--2006年8月提交给Ruth Glynn、Giancarlo Lombardi和Alan O‘Leary的文章：《恐怖主义，一个女性的疾病》，《恐怖主义，意大利风格：电影：意大利政治暴力的代表》(2008年)撰写已经在另外两篇文章中完成的研究：-《通过创伤的镜头：II Prigioniero和Buongiorno中女性恐怖分子的形象，而不是》，2006年10月提交给Pierpaolo Antonello和Alan O‘Leary(编辑)，《想象恐怖主义：修辞和意大利政治暴力的代表，1969-2005》(Legenda，2008年)--《书写恐怖分子的自我：亚平衡和女性犯罪者》，即将于2007年4月提交给《现代意大利》杂志。提交另外四份相关的会议论文。2006年11月联合组织了一次跨学科会议。潜在的应用和好处：我的研究将大大有助于理解意大利文化如何被解读为试图克服因长期暴露在Anni di Piombo的政治暴力而产生的集体创伤。它的独特之处在于将Anni di Piombo持续解读为文化创伤，并将重点放在妇女参与政治暴力和恐怖主义造成的特殊创伤上，使当代重新审视这一时期。通过提出这样的问题，比如为什么女性恐怖分子的形象在最近的文化中获得了更高的知名度，以及恐怖人物的“女性化”如何影响到对创伤过去的集体“处理”，我的工作不仅将有助于理解意大利对Anni di Piombo的文化记忆中固有的过程，以及目前对暴力女性电影表现的探索，也将有助于创伤研究：在后一个领域，它将揭露创伤理论中关于性别和暴力的含蓄但未言明的想法，并呼吁对政治暴力的创伤采取更具性别敏感性的方法。