Abstract

ABSTRACTA prolific author whose production extends over four decades, Pina Ballario was an overt supporter of fascism who later enjoyed a successful career in Republican Italy. In this article I explore her treatment of alimentary images in the travel book Come ho visto la Russia e altri paesi del mondo and the colonial novels Fortuna sotto vento and Il figlio che mi hai dato. I argue that Ballario’s use of alimentary images reveals an opposition to Fascist policies that belies her openly declared support for the regime. The analysis considers the centrality of alimentary discourses in the 1930s, at both cultural and economic levels, and also considers alimentary imagination as expression of personal emotions and subjectivities. Alimentary discourse is therefore crucial to our understanding of literary support for, or opposition to, Fascism.

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