Connected and disconnected memoryscapes of the Antigorio Valley: a village under water and a Second World War massacre on a cableway

TitleConnected and disconnected memoryscapes of the Antigorio Valley: a village under water and a Second World War massacre on a cableway
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsHildegard Diemberger
JournalModern Italy
Volume21
Issue1
Pagination19-34
ISSN13532944
Abstract

This article looks at two sites of memory in northern Italy that are geographically and temporally close but are remembered and narrated in different ways. Referring to specific tragic events that took place in the Valle Antigorio (northern Val d’Ossola) – the destruction of a village by the construction of a hydroelectric basin in 1938 and a massacre of partisans on a cableway in 1944 – it shows how memory can not only be divided but also connected and disconnected through fluid memoryscapes and remembrance practices that respond to shifting political contexts and a varying sense of belonging. (English)

DOI10.1017/mit.2015.16
Short TitleConnected and disconnected memoryscapes of the Antigorio Valley