Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0312221681 ISBN 13: 9780312221683

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Riassunto

Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post-Unification period, when the Mezzogiorno was widely seen as barbaric, violent or irrational, an "Africa" on the European continent. At the same time, this is the moment when the Mezzogiorno became a metaphor for the state of the country as a whole, the index of Italy s modernity. Dickie argues that these stereotypes, rather than being a symptom of the failings of national identity in Italy, were actually integral to the way Italy s bourgeoisie imagined themselves as Italian. Drawing on recent theories of Otherness and national identity, Dickie brings a new light to an important and well-established area of Italian history - the relationship between the South and the nation as a whole.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John Dickie is Lecturer in Italian Studies at University College London.

Product Description:

Book by Dickie John

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312221681
• ISBN 13: 9780312221683
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 209