South Tyrolian literature

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Elgin Eckert (The Umbra Institute)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

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Date of occurrence 1919-

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Historical Background

The story of South Tyrol is the story of migration, transnationality and ethnic conflict. It comprises a geographic area in the north of Italy (the autonomous province of Bolzano, which together with Trentino makes up the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol) whose now-ethnic Austrian minority became “Italian” under forceful occupation after World War I as one of the problematic “unsettled settlements”. Fascism brought more extreme unsettlement for the former Austrians, now torn between a superimposed cult of Mussolini and enforced Italian patriotism, on the one hand, and relief promised by migration into Nazi-occupied German territories, on the other. Following a brief moment of post-war hope, a period of extremist terrorism and bombings at the hands

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Citation: Eckert, Elgin. "South Tyrolian literature". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 June 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19472, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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