TY - JOUR AU - Emiliano Marra PY - 2014/05/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Italian Alternative History literature. Alternative History and Propaganda in Italian Tales. JF - Between JA - BW VL - 4 IS - 7 SE - Telling, Hesitating, Envisaging. Sites of the uncanny DO - 10.13125/2039-6597/1116 UR - https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/1116 AB - The matter of this essay is Italian alternative history tales published after the Second World War, linked to Italian extreme right-wing movements and compared with the main novels of the same kind written in English. The topic is explained with a historical approach and the considered works of fiction are matched with the foreign models in a comparative viewpoint. The first section offers a general and synthetic perspective of the current studies about this kind of tales, the second section concerns the historical description of the genre in Italy, whereas the third section is focused on the ideological controversies raised by some novels and on the comparison between these works and their main English and American models. The essay intends to be an original contribution to this topic and results from a documentary research, besides considering the thematic analysis of the examined works. ER -