Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy

Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the “making” of Italians as modern political...

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Autor principal: Welch, Rhiannon Noel
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Publicado: Liverpool University Press 2021
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description Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the “making” of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861-1870) and the end of the First World War (1919). The book includes readings of texts by Italian thinkers such as Leopoldo Franchetti and Paolo Mantegazza and it offers new readings of well- and lesser-known texts by a writer who has become Italy’s most infamous precursor to Mussolini: poet, novelist, and political provocateur Gabriele D’Annunzio. Vital Subjects concludes with an original analysis of an early film that figures prominently in the history of cinema: Giovanni Pastrone’s 1914 silent film Cabiria--produced in the wake of the Italian invasion of Libya (1911-12) and celebrating ancient Roman imperialism.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-312392025-07-30T19:29:06Z Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy Welch, Rhiannon Noel Political Science Biopolitics Cabiria Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy Maciste thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the “making” of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861-1870) and the end of the First World War (1919). The book includes readings of texts by Italian thinkers such as Leopoldo Franchetti and Paolo Mantegazza and it offers new readings of well- and lesser-known texts by a writer who has become Italy’s most infamous precursor to Mussolini: poet, novelist, and political provocateur Gabriele D’Annunzio. Vital Subjects concludes with an original analysis of an early film that figures prominently in the history of cinema: Giovanni Pastrone’s 1914 silent film Cabiria--produced in the wake of the Italian invasion of Libya (1911-12) and celebrating ancient Roman imperialism. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-16 03:00:25 2020-04-01T12:43:34Z 2016-03-01 book 650047 OCN: 945453793 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30052 9781781384558 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31239 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30052/1/650047.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30052/1/650047.pdf Liverpool University Press 10.26530/oapen_608318 10.26530/oapen_608318 aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781781384558 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Knowledge Unlatched Round 2 Liverpool 103486 KU Round 2 open access
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Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy
title Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy
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Italy
Maciste
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