Rereading Travellers to the East

Rereading Travellers to the East aims to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in...

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description Rereading Travellers to the East aims to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in the political, economic, cultural and intellectual life of post-unification Italy. The authors highlight how this literature has been reinterpreted and reused for political and ideological purposes in the context of the formation and reformation of collective identities, from the Risorgimento to the Fascist regime and the early republic. By showing the potential of the notion of rereading, the volume outlines a history of the political and cultural legacy of travel literature which goes well beyond Italy.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-922832025-08-13T13:42:29Z Rereading Travellers to the East Falcucci, Beatrice Giusti, Emanuele Trentacoste, Davide Italy nation-building orientalism travel literature rereading thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history Rereading Travellers to the East aims to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in the political, economic, cultural and intellectual life of post-unification Italy. The authors highlight how this literature has been reinterpreted and reused for political and ideological purposes in the context of the formation and reformation of collective identities, from the Risorgimento to the Fascist regime and the early republic. By showing the potential of the notion of rereading, the volume outlines a history of the political and cultural legacy of travel literature which goes well beyond Italy. 2022-09-22T04:07:37Z 2022-09-22T04:07:37Z 2022-09-15T20:14:54Z 2022 book ONIX_20220915_9788855185790_56 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58410 9788855185790 9788855185783 9788855185806 9788855185813 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92283 eng Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/58410/1/9788855185790.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/58410/1/9788855185790.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0 10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855185790 9788855185783 9788855185806 9788855185813 232 Florence open access
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Rereading Travellers to the East
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