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Dickie, J: Darkest Italy

Autor John Dickie
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 1999
Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyses 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780333802182
ISBN-10: 0333802187
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 143 x 217 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction
A World at War: The Italian Army and Brigandage
The Birth of the Southern Question
The Power of the Picturesque: Representations of the South in the Illustrazione Italiana
Francesco Crispi's Sicilianitë
Conclusion

Recenzii

'Dickie leaves little doubt about the way that use of the stereotype could explain the perceived failures and shortcomings of the new nation.' - Italian Politics and Society

Notă biografică

JOHN DICKIE is Lecturer in Italian Studies at University College London. He is General Editor of Modern Italy, the journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy.

Caracteristici

1 Reputation of author
2 Examines stereotypes and national identity

Descriere

Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyses 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.