EAN: 9783034302562

UNDOING TIME - ELEANOR CHIARI KARTONIERT (TB)

The walls of Le Nuove prison in Turin are scarred by graffiti  bullets and blood. Opened in
1870  Le Nuove was one of Italy's first panoptical prisons. During the Second World War it was
occupied by the Nazis  who executed and deported anti-Fascist and Jewish prisoners held there.
In the 1970s it housed left-wing 'terrorists'  who spearheaded violent riots that spread to
prisons across Italy. The prison staff became targets and four were shot dead. When Le Nuove
finally closed down in October 2003  the memories of the tragic events that occurred there
became obstacles to its demolition. Combining oral history  anthropology and micro-history 
this book examines the cultural memory of Le Nuove via interviews  archives and the material
traces left within the building itself. The volume examines issues such as the relationship
between memory and place  forgetting  and the problems of a global cultural heritage
increasingly focused on places of suffering. By following the architecture of the prison in her
narrative  the author actively engages with the many layers of time competing to give meaning
to the prison today  as well as addressing the hidden stories  myths and silences that
condition any study of cultural memory.

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