Palladino, Simona (2024) Oral histories of Italians in the North East: the sinking of the Arandora Star. Modern Italy, 29 (3). pp. 3143-328. ISSN 1353-2944
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Abstract
Within British Italian history of the Second World War, there are several questions surrounding the sinking of the SS Arandora Star, on the 2nd of July 1940, which still remain problematic. Nevertheless, this tragedy continues to play a prominent role in the heritage and memories of the Anglo Italian communities in the UK. This article focuses on the experiences and memories of the Arandora Star from the perspective of members of the Italian community in the North East of England. Oral histories of Italian internees that were embarked onto the ocean liner were collected via qualitative interviews amongst descendants of victims and survivors and from Italian community members. This work contributes to raising awareness of Arandora Star scholarship by articulating how memories were interpreted retrospectively by descendants of victims and their community members. Informing the debate on the purpose of misremembering in oral history, this work sheds light on the events and their imaginary reconstruction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Association for the Study of Modern Italy. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Arandora Star; Second World War; Oral history; Italian history |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Simona Palladino |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2024 10:37 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2024 09:38 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4124 |
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