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Informationen zum Autor Patrizia Palumbo is Assistant Professor of Italian and French at Wagner College. Klappentext "This impressive volume succeeds in bringing Italian colonialism into the space of today's most important debates regarding colonialism and multiculturalism."-Graziela Parati! author of Mediterranean Crossroads "A significant collection that really has no equal to date. The essays in this volume investigate profoundly the relationship between Italian colonialism and Italian society! past and present."-Anthony Tamburri! author of A Semiotic of Rereading Zusammenfassung A study of Italian colonial history and culture, this text gathers articles which highlight the ways in which colonial discourse has pervaded Italian culture from the post-unification period to the present. It delves into the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Italian Colonial Cultures Patrizia Palumbo PART I. THE SHAPING OF ITALIAN COLONIAL HISTORY: POLITICAL PRACTICES AND THEORETICAL LEGITIMIZATION The Myths! Suppressions! Denials and Defaults of Italian Colonialism Angelo Del Boca Studies and Research on Fascist Colonialism! 1922-1935: Reflections on the State of the Art Nicola Labanca Italian Anthropology and the Africans: The Early Colonial Period Barbara Sòrgoni The Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea: The Liberal and Early Fascist Period (1897-1934) Giulia Barrera PART II. COLONIAL LITERATURE: FROM EXPLORATION TO A DOMESTIC EMPIRE Gifts! Sex! and Guns: Nineteenth-Century Italian Explorers in Africa Cristina Lombardi-Diop Incorporating the Exotic: From Futurist Excess to Postmodern Impasse Cinzia Sartini-Blum Alexandria Revisited: Colonialism and the Egyptian Works of Enrico Pea and Giuseppe Ungaretti Lucia Re Mass-Mediated Fantasies of Feminine Conquest! 1930-1940 Robin Pickering-Iazzi Orphans for the Empire: Colonial Propaganda and Children's Literature during the Imperial Era Patrizia Palumbo PART III. THE COLONIAL PRODUCTION OF AFRICA AND THE SILENT SCENE OF DECOLONIZATION Colonial Autism: Whitened Heroes! Auditory Rhetoric! and National Identity in Interwar Italian Cinema Giorgio Bertellini Black Shirts/Black Skins: Fascist Italy's Colonial Anxieties and Lo Squadrone Bianco Cecilia Boggio Empty Spaces: Decolonization in Italy Karen Pinkus Notes on Contributors ...
