Gramsci’s laboratory: “subaltern social groups”
Despite his fame, a considerable part of the writings of Antonio Gramsci, a leader of the Italian Communist Party in its revolutionary period of the early 1920s who then wrote Prison Notebooks in Mussolini’s jails, is not available in English. Joseph Buttigieg’s English translation of Prison Notebooks 1 to 8 was published in three volumes by Columbia University Press in 1992, 1996 and 2007, but Buttigieg died in 2019, and it is not clear when the remaining Notebooks may be fully translated. However, another volume from the Notebooks has been published in English: Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern...