Luisa passerini autobiography meaning

A rich interweaving of personal and historical accounts of a social movement that explores the way memory reconstructs our view of the past.

1968 is symbolic in Italy of a whole decade of struggles by students, women, workers, intellectuals, and technicians.

This extraordinary book, first published in Italy in 1988 as Autoritratto di gruppo, documents the intricate web of individual and communal experiences in the political movements of the 60s. Luisa Passerini, internationally known for her work in memory, oral history, and their intersections with social movements, sets out to rescue the "forgotten memory" of her generation and to give it literary status.

Framed and illuminated by sessions of psychoanalysis, this absorbing narrative weaves episodes of Passerini's autobiography-including her involvement in the 1968 uprisings-oral histories of other participants, and Passerini's sociological observations.

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