Knowledge of the Arandora Star is no longer limited to members of the UK's historic Italian community but is shared by a much larger constituency thanks to the greater accessibility of historical documents relating to the sinking of the ship, and to the substantial volume of new creative work inspired by it. This article examines this expansion of historical memory by following two discrete but entangled strands. The first follows the construction of the Arandora Star archive, starting from the author's chance personal encounter with a photograph. The second involves a close reading of Francine Stock's A Foreign Country (1999) and Caterina Soffici's Nessuno può fermarmi (2017), two novels that explore how people outside the historic Italian community recognise their implication in the sinking and its aftermath. Both foreground the intergenerational and transnational transmission of difficult memory and the ways in which the Arandora Star functions as an unstable point of historical knowledge and ethical judgement.

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同谋的阴影：“牵连对象”的档案


关于阿兰多拉之星的知识不再局限于英国历史悠久的意大利社区的成员，而且由于与沉船相关的历史文献更容易获得，以及受其启发的大量新创意作品，因此被更大的支持者所共享。本文通过遵循两条离散但纠缠不清的线索来研究历史记忆的这种扩展。第一个故事讲述了 Arandora Star 档案的构建，从作者个人与照片的偶然相遇开始。第二部分涉及对弗朗辛·斯托克 （Francine Stock） 的《异国》（A Foreign Country，1999 年）和卡特琳娜·索菲奇 （Caterina Soffici） 的《Nessuno può fermarmi》（2017 年），这两部小说探讨了意大利历史社区以外的人们如何认识到他们在沉没及其后果中的影响。两者都突出了困难记忆的代际和跨国传播，以及 Arandora Star 作为历史知识和道德判断的不稳定点的方式。