{"product_id":"rome-16-october-1943-mara-josi-9781839542121","title":"Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eRome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a temporary detention centre for two days. They were eventually deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from a local railway station, Stazione Tiburtina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom December 1944, literary texts of this event have facilitated a national and international understanding and recollection of 16 October 1943. They have been bearers of historical awareness, channels of memory; not only outcomes of remembrance but also active ingredients in the process of forging cultural memory. In this pioneering interdisciplinary study drawing from literary and cultural memory studies, Mara Josi shows how \u003cem\u003e16 ottobre 1943\u003c\/em\u003e by Giacomo Debenedetti, \u003cem\u003eLa Storia\u003c\/em\u003e by Elsa Morante, \u003cem\u003eLa parola ebreo\u003c\/em\u003e by Rosetta Loy, and \u003cem\u003ePortico d'Ottavia 13\u003c\/em\u003e by Anna Foa have operated on the personal and the collective level: in other words, on the reader and on society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMara Josi obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Before joining the University of Manchester as a lecturer, she was an IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mara Josi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1839542128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839542121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.41d","brand":"Mara Josi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440648925439,"sku":"9781839542121","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9d764e66-52fd-4e71-9f2c-a9ed3f26aa1a.jpg?v=1777183869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rome-16-october-1943-mara-josi-9781839542121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}