A writer on the radio between Resistance and the women's question: Alba de Céspedes and the voice of Clorinda

Abstract

This essay aims to investigate the intermedial experience of an exceptional reporter like Alba de Céspedes, that is to say her participation in the Resistance movement through the program Italia combatte on Radio Bari, from which she urged Italian men and women to resistance under the pseudonym of Clorinda, literary sublimation of an authentically heroic undertaking. Through the relevant episode of Radio Bari, the writer offers a significant contribution to post-war social and civil regeneration, creating a unique combination of life and literature, writing and radio, political militancy and definition of the new Italian woman, to reveal a special vocation for the hybridization of different genres and media. And so, from Nessuno torna indietro to Italia combatte up to the magazine «Mercurio», she clearly demonstrates the originality of a writer fighting for freedom, capable of combining the themes of civil commitment and female mutation in an unprecedented interweaving of literature, radio and journalism.