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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2008 44(2):128-139; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqn002
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© The Author (2008). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved

The Limits of National Memory: Anti-Fascism, the Holocaust and the Fosse Ardeatine Memorial in 1990s Italy

Rebecca Clifford

Worcester College
University of Oxford
OXFORD OX1 2HB
United Kingdom


  Abstract

This article uses the memorial to the 1944 Fosse Ardeatine massacre in Rome as a case study that demonstrates how the symbolic function of memorials can alter over time. Focusing on the changing meanings of the monument in a post-Cold War context, it examines how, during the 1990s, the memorial was transformed from a central, national symbol of the Italian anti-fascist Resistance to one which evoked the Holocaust. It argues that this shift in meaning recast the monument – and the massacre itself – as a site and an event at the margins of national history and memory.

Key Words: Italian anti-fascism • Italian fascism • Holocaust • Fosse Ardeatine massacre • Rome • Priebke, Erich • memorials

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