Corpi feriti nella letteratura della Grande Guerra

In this paper, the author analyses the representation of wounded bodies in a diverse corpus of texts and images of WW1 culture. This corpus, which includes literary texts, newspapers articles, and propagandi-stic materials, showcases a wide variety of rhetorical devices aiming to give shape to suffered violence. The hypothesis underpinning the paper is that the representation of the wounded body is not simply censored within those products that openly endorse the core of the pedagogy of the nation at war; on the contrary, as in the case of the children book Il cuore di Pinocchio, the idea of the absolute sovereignty that the homeland exerts on soldiers’ bodies is expressed with no understatement.