Purezza e meticciato

The Italian colonial novel and the (re)production of Italian whiteness

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ID18944781
AutoresFrancesco Casales (0009-0001-8482-2276, Université Paris Cité, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume25
Fascículo4
Páginas439-454
Data de publicação2020-09-23
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoModern Italy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1353-2944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9877
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/mit.2020.50
OpenAlexW3088441570
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

This essay focuses on the racialising devices that characterise some Italian colonial novels. Specifically, it looks at two novels of the late 1920s – Enrico Cappellina's Un canto nella notte. Romanzo coloniale and Guido Milanesi's La sperduta di Allah – with the aim of highlighting the continuities and discontinuities between the racist models they endorse. A critical close reading of the texts reveals the degree of interconnection between segregationist and inclusivist interpretations of the cross-racial colonial encounter in the first half of the ventennio . With this perspective, the 1936 imperial turning point, even though critical on the institutional level, appears less so in the cultural field of racist production

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Anthropology · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Italian Literature and Culture · Law

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