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Title:A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present
Editor:Palumbo, PatriziaISNI
Year:2003
Pages:332
Language:English
City of publisher:Berkeley, CA
Publisher:University of California Press
ISBN:0520232321; 0520232348
Geographic terms:Italy
Africa
Egypt
Sudan
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Subjects:cultural history
colonial history
colonization
Abstract:This collective volume looks at Italy's colonial past and its political, economic and cultural legacies. Part 1 is devoted to the shaping of Italian colonial history: Angelo del Boca illuminates the manner in which accepted versions of Italian colonial history have been nothing but a reflection of the hegemonic political interests that have shaped inquiry into the past; Nicola Labanca examines studies on fascist colonialism for the period 1922-1935; Barbara Sòrgoni shows how anthropology and colonialism benefited from one another in Italy; and Giulia Barrera looks at interracial relationships in Italy's colony Eritrea, 1897-1934. Part 2 delineates changes in the textual representation of Italy's colonial experience: Cristina Lombardi-Diop discusses the experiences of the 19th-century Tuscan traveller Carlo Piaggia with the Azande in the Sudan; Cinzia Sartini-Blum analyses the positions adopted in the 1930s by the futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the debates on Italian colonial literature; Lucia Re examines the colonial texts on Egypt of Enrico Pea and Giuseppe Ungaretti; Robin Pickering-Iazzi deals with ways in which the women's press of the period educated women about eastern Africa; and Patrizia Palumbo discusses imperialist propaganda directed toward children. The role of colonialism's uncertainties and 'weaknesses' in Italian cinema is the subject of Part 3. The three contributors to this part (Giorgio Bertellini, Cecilia Boggio and Karen Pinkus) argue that through three phases of Italian cinema, from the 1930s to the 1960s, film either failed to address the colonial subject or revealed significant anxieties about Italy's imperial identity. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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