The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Christian Democrat politician, Aldo Moro, marked the watershed of Italy's experience of political violence in the period known as the 'years of lead' (1969-c

Ruth Glynn

Introduction: Remembering Aldo Moro Prelude: 'A Long Preparation for Dying'? The Life of Aldo Moro, 1916-1978 Part I: Modes of Emplotment 1. Aldo Moro and the Tragic Afterlife of a Melodrama 2. Lost Leaders: The Deaths of James Cook and Aldo Moro Compared Part II: Tropes, Language, and Trauma 3. Doxa, Orthodox, Paradox, Heterodox, Oxymoron: Aldo Moro's Lettere dalla prigione del popolo 4. oro as Figure of Speech: The Displaced Confessions of the Women of the Brigate Rosse 6. Moro, Morucci, Moretti: Oxymoron and the Prison of Political Language Part III: The Body of Moro 7. Moro's Body between Enlightenment and Postmodernism: Terror, Murder, and Meaning in Jean Baudrillard and Leonardo Sciascia 8. Unbury that Body: The Tragic Palinode of a Generation in Marco Baliani's Corpo di stato Part IV: Mediating Moro 9. Imago Moro: Medi-a-(c)tion on Aldo Moro 10. Locations of Moro: The Kidnap in the Cinema 11. Fictions: The Moro Affaire in Primetime Drama