Seeking normalità in Alberto Moravia’s Il conformista: Towards an Italian history of the homosexual fascist in postwar memory

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Katherine Lempres
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This article analyzes the figure of the homosexual fascist, the ‘homo-fascist,’ in postwar cultural memory through the lens of Alberto Moravia's 1951 novel Il conformista ( The Conformist). Il conformista exemplifies the place of the homo-fascist narrative in crafting postwar cultural discourses around fascism, especially in the Italian case. Beginning from a close reading of the text combined with analysis of its historical context, the article deconstructs the narrative's interpretive logic to identify the many politically convenient fictions the homo-fascist offered within the growing project of postwar memory. These fictions, as embodied in the homo-fascist, facilitated the dual condemnation and excusal of fascism as the pathological weakness of the separate few, not the collective many. This analysis illuminates the often-overlooked historical role that narratives of homosexuality have played in the fluid construction of cultural, political, and social memories of fascism and its adherents. Viewing Il conformista within a specifically Italian vein of the narrative distinct from the German, moreover, critically reorients the text within Italy's individual and politically potent relationship to its Fascist past. Understanding the homo-fascist through Il conformista, therefore, enlightens not only the history of the homo-fascist figure, but also the histories of modern Italy, postwar memory culture, and sexual politics.
在阿尔贝托·摩拉维亚的《循规蹈矩者》中寻求常态:走向战后记忆中的意大利同性恋法西斯历史
本文通过阿尔贝托·摩拉维亚1951年的小说《墨客》,分析了战后文化记忆中同性恋法西斯的形象,即“同性恋法西斯”。《墨守成规》体现了同性恋法西斯叙事在围绕法西斯主义的战后文化话语中所处的地位,尤其是在意大利。本文通过对文本的细读,结合对其历史背景的分析,解构了叙事的解释逻辑,以识别在不断增长的战后记忆项目中,同法西斯主义提供的许多政治上方便的虚构。这些小说体现在同法西斯主义中,促进了对法西斯主义的双重谴责和借口,认为法西斯主义是个别少数人的病态弱点,而不是集体多数人的病态弱点。这一分析阐明了同性恋叙事在法西斯主义及其追随者的文化、政治和社会记忆的流动建构中所扮演的经常被忽视的历史角色。此外,用一种独特的意大利叙事风格来看待《墨客》,它与德国的叙事风格截然不同,批判性地重新定位了意大利与其法西斯历史的个人和政治上强有力的关系。因此,通过《墨客》来理解同性恋法西斯,不仅可以启发同性恋法西斯人物的历史,还可以启发现代意大利的历史、战后记忆文化和性政治。
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