Da mangiare e immaginare. Il cibo nelle testimonianze di migranti e soldati italiani
Mots-clés :
E-migrazione, Guerra, Scrittura, Cibo, FameRésumé
This contribution aims to highlight how food, the imaginary construct that surrounds it, and hunger recur in personal written testimonies and are particularly effective in allowing for an in-depth understanding of the intimate nature of the experience. Drawing on documents preserved largely in the Archivio Ligure della Scrittura Popolare [Ligurian Archive of Popular Writing], it examines some testimonies produced during the two major divisive events of the contemporary era: the Great Migration between the 19th and the 20th centuries, and the First World War. These events fostered a great flow of written material (letters, postcards, diaries and autobiographical memoirs), which was needed to heal the wounds caused by distance: separation and deprivation, for which food represents a sort of unit of measurement.