Matilde Serao, Flavia Steno and Stefania Türr were prominent figures of Italian journalism who narrated the First World War from the female perspective. The conflict that devastated Europe also became a pretext for talking about the role of women during the war and the obstacles they faced in early twentieth-century Italy …
Schlagwort: Italy
Stefania Türr’s patriotic lens: „La Madre Italiana“, „Alle trincee d’Italia“, and „I soldati d’Italia“
In 1917, the Italian journalist and writer Stefania Türr visited the Italian front as a war correspondent for „La Madre Italiana“, a monthly journal founded by her in 1916. She published two books about her war experience: „Alle Trincee d’Italia“ (1917), and „I soldati d’Italia“. A patriotic and interventionist vein is the lens through which she describes the war and life in the trenches …
