Fiamma Lussana

Narrare una storia universale. «L'uomo che verrà» e la storiografia gramsciana «dal basso»

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  • Giorgio Diritti's film L'uomo che verrà tells of the violence of war that befell Monte Sole's peasant community. It was a Nazi massacre
  • and
  • like all massacres
  • it was a chronicle of tragedy and death
  • claiming nearly 800 victims guilty merely of having fought desperately against the War's violence. Men
  • women
  • children
  • and the partisan community are the leading players in the film
  • which gives voice to humble people from the Gramscian perspective &ndash
  • «from below». Poor country people and partisans withstand the tragedy of war
  • defending land
  • home
  • and family. Not heroes
  • they are
  • first and foremost
  • common people.
  • E.J. Hobsbawm takes the same perspective
  • starting with his Primitive Rebels (1959)
  • where he devotes major studies to rebel peasants
  • brigands
  • and rabble rousers. Like brigands
  • partisans are often poor country people: the myth of the «patriot-partisan» arose in the Second postwar period

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