Chapter Rereading Italian Travellers to Africa: Precursors, Identities and Interracial Relations in Narratives of Italian Colonialism
This essay considers a number of travellers’ writings about Africa which are reread to construct and deconstruct Italian colonial identity. It focuses on Cesare Cesari’s Viaggi africani di Pellegrino Matteucci (1932), which deems Matteucci a precursor of Fascist colonialism and contributor to Fascis...
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| description | This essay considers a number of travellers’ writings about Africa which are reread to construct and deconstruct Italian colonial identity. It focuses on Cesare Cesari’s Viaggi africani di Pellegrino Matteucci (1932), which deems Matteucci a precursor of Fascist colonialism and contributor to Fascist “colonial science”. The essay then moves on to explore the more recent rereading by Angelo Del Boca and Igiaba Scego of respectively Indro Montanelli’s XX Battaglione Eritreo (1936) and Errico Emanuelli’s Settimana nera (1961). By bringing together and rereading these texts, the essay maps the transformations of Italianness from colonial to postcolonial times and reveals how colonial identity relied on a series of gender, racial and sexual tropes of exploration and conquest. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-923632025-08-13T13:42:33Z Chapter Rereading Italian Travellers to Africa: Precursors, Identities and Interracial Relations in Narratives of Italian Colonialism De Donno, Fabrizio Africa colonial identity race sex gender thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History This essay considers a number of travellers’ writings about Africa which are reread to construct and deconstruct Italian colonial identity. It focuses on Cesare Cesari’s Viaggi africani di Pellegrino Matteucci (1932), which deems Matteucci a precursor of Fascist colonialism and contributor to Fascist “colonial science”. The essay then moves on to explore the more recent rereading by Angelo Del Boca and Igiaba Scego of respectively Indro Montanelli’s XX Battaglione Eritreo (1936) and Errico Emanuelli’s Settimana nera (1961). By bringing together and rereading these texts, the essay maps the transformations of Italianness from colonial to postcolonial times and reveals how colonial identity relied on a series of gender, racial and sexual tropes of exploration and conquest. 2022-09-22T04:15:57Z 2022-09-22T04:15:57Z 2022-09-15T20:08:01Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20220915_9788855185790_114 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58318 9788855185790 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92363 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/20.500.12657/58318/1/978-88-5518-579-0_5.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/58318/1/978-88-5518-579-0_5.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0.05 10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0.05 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855185790 18 Florence open access |
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