Papers by Caterina Sinibaldi
Over the last twenty years, Italian crime fiction has attracted growing scholarly attention, both... more Over the last twenty years, Italian crime fiction has attracted growing scholarly attention, both in Italy and in the Anglophone world. If, on the one hand, this is due to a renewed interest in previously neglected areas of ‘letteratura popolare’, on the other it cannot be denied that Italy itself has become a central theme in crime fiction. Not only have contemporary Italian authors, such as Carlo Lucarelli and Andrea Camilleri, gained international success, but also British and North-American authors (Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon, just to mention two) have chosen to set their detective stories in Italy.
The association between Italy and crime fiction, however, is only a recent one...
This article examines four retellings of Pinocchio produced during the years of the Fascist regim... more This article examines four retellings of Pinocchio produced during the years of the Fascist regime, ranging from 1923 to 1939. The four texts will be analysed as a case of 'intralingual' translation, where the popularity of Collodi's puppet is re-framed and re-interpreted according to different political and educational priorities. I employ a narrative approach in order to determine how the new stories engage with Collodi's novel while also positioning themselves in relation to broader narratives circulating at the time. The diverse ideological dimensions of the re-writings, combined with their chronological breadth, make those texts particularly suitable for showing the breaks and continuity in the narratives circulated by the regime and rooted in pre-existing ideological discourses. The appropriation of the almost mythical character of children's literature will be explored in its ideological implications, and related to the priorities of Fascism at different stages of its evolution.
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Papers by Caterina Sinibaldi
The association between Italy and crime fiction, however, is only a recent one...
The association between Italy and crime fiction, however, is only a recent one...