Ricordi di famiglia: l’antifascismo dei padri immigrati e la militanza rivoluzionaria dei figli (Uruguay 1930-1980)

Abstract

The article presents the author’s interviews to three informant born in Italian emigrants families in Uruguay. During the interviews they reflect on the family political tradition and its influence on their choices. Two of the informants have take part in the organizations of the armed left: the Uruguayan Communist Party and the MNL-Tupamaros. His/her fathers' antifascism, the myth of the Resistenza together with that of the Castro’s revolution has had an important role in their biography. The informants’ family has lived during the Uruguayan military dictatorship of the Seventies and has experienced the exile as an ideological and affective landmark.

Keywords

• Uruguay
• Italian immigrants
• dictatorship
• antifascism
• revolutionary left