An Italian journal of contemporary history (http://www.racine.ra.it/oriani/memoriaericerca), invites submissions for issue: 12, "From linguistic violence to real violence: comparing different national cases in the 1920s and 30s"

the issue is devoted to the connection between the use of violent political language and the effective resort to violence in the political field during the interwar period. Its aim is to identify several national cases where the degradation of political communicational codes and the growing use of war metaphors nourished a new discourse, which legitimized violence as an acceptable tool in the political struggle.

The experiences of fascism and nazism are obviously the most striking examples, but our intention is to extend the comparison also to democratic countries such as France, the UK and the US, where the exacerbation of political and social conflict overlapped with a radicalization of political discourse and a growing resort to war metaphors.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 31, 2002

About "Memoria e Ricerca": a journal of contemporary history. "Memoria e Ricerca" is a blind refereed journal produced in conjunction with the Fondazione "Oriani" of Ravenna, the Faculty of Humanites of the Tuscia University and the Institute for the History of the Resistance Movement of Forlė. The journal welcomes submissions from all historiographical perspectives. Manuscripts can be submitted in Italian, English, and French. Articles are published in Italian. Editorial decisions are based solely on quality and originality.

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