This course will analyze fictional representations of Italian terrorism in cinema, literature, and memoirs. A discourse on terrorism, its roots, its reason of being, its events, its demise, and its aftermath is thus investigated through a critical reading of those cultural products which have tried to make sense out of a most obscure and difficult period in recent Italian history. In particular, we will analyze the construction of the figure of the terrorist in films, novels, and autobiographical narratives produced in the past two decades, questioning the perlocutionary effect that such construction often incorporates.

Required texts: Sergio Zavoli, LA NOTTE DELLA REPUBBLICA. Milano: Mondadori, 1995
Carlo Castellaneta, CERCHI NELL'ACQUA. Milano: Mondadori, 1995
Anna Laura Braghetti e Paola Tavella, IL PRIGIONIERO. Milano: Mondadori, 2002
Sergio Flamigni, LA TELA DEL RAGNO Kaos, 2003.