3. Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli’s “True” Romance Novels of Occupied Rome

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Redeeming Destination Italy: A Guide to the Occupation of Enemy Territory 17
6. 2. “Liberated” Rome beyond Redemption: Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà and Alfred Hayes’s All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flaminia 42
7. 3. Happily Ever after Redemption: Luciana Peverelli’s “True” Romance Novels of Occupied Rome 66
8. 4. A Queer Redemption: John Horne Burns’s The Gallery 91
9. 5. Sleights of Hand, Black Skin, and the Redemption of Curzio Malaparte’s La pelle 111
10. 6. The Redemption of Saint Paul: Norman Lewis’s Naples ’44 132
11. Epilogue 153
12. Acknowledgments 163
13. Notes 167
14. Works Cited 213
15. Index 231