Shades of complicity: archives of the ‘implicated subject’

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q3 AREA STUDIES
Modern Italy Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI:10.1017/mit.2024.20
Derek Duncan
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Abstract

Knowledge of the Arandora Star is no longer limited to members of the UK's historic Italian community but is shared by a much larger constituency thanks to the greater accessibility of historical documents relating to the sinking of the ship, and to the substantial volume of new creative work inspired by it. This article examines this expansion of historical memory by following two discrete but entangled strands. The first follows the construction of the Arandora Star archive, starting from the author's chance personal encounter with a photograph. The second involves a close reading of Francine Stock's A Foreign Country (1999) and Caterina Soffici's Nessuno può fermarmi (2017), two novels that explore how people outside the historic Italian community recognise their implication in the sinking and its aftermath. Both foreground the intergenerational and transnational transmission of difficult memory and the ways in which the Arandora Star functions as an unstable point of historical knowledge and ethical judgement.

共谋的阴影:"牵连主体 "档案
对 "阿兰多拉星号 "的了解不再局限于英国历史上的意大利社区成员,由于更容易获取与沉船事件有关的历史文献,以及受其启发而创作的大量新作品,更多的人开始了解 "阿兰多拉星号"。本文通过两条相互独立但又相互纠缠的线索来探讨历史记忆的扩展。第一条线索是作者从与一张照片的偶然邂逅开始构建 "阿兰多拉之星 "档案。第二部分涉及对弗朗辛-斯托克(Francine Stock)的《异国他乡》(1999 年)和卡特琳娜-索菲奇(Caterina Soffici)的《Nessuno può fermarmi》(2017 年)的细读,这两部小说探讨了历史上意大利社区以外的人们如何认识到自己在沉船事件及其后果中的影响。这两部小说都强调了艰难记忆的代际和跨国传承,以及 "阿兰多拉之星 "作为历史知识和道德判断的不稳定点的作用方式。
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