Da mangiare e immaginare. Il cibo nelle testimonianze di migranti e soldati italiani

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Mots-clés :

E-migrazione, Guerra, Scrittura, Cibo, Fame

Résumé

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Fabio Caffarena, Università di Genova

Fabio Caffarena teaches Contemporary history, Didactics of history and History of the territory and its resources at the University of Genoa (Department of Education). He is director of the Ligurian Archive of Popular Writing, a member of the International Center for Italian Studies and of the International Center for Italian Emigration Studies in Genoa. He has participated in international conferences and is the author of studies dedicated to popular writings, especially of Italian soldiers and migrants.

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2021-10-11