Italia barbara

Italian primitives from Piero to Pasolini

Bibliographic Data

ID12549136
AuthorsEmily Braun (The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume17
Issue3
Pages259-270
Publication date2012-04-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Modern Italian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1354-571X • E-ISSN: 1469-9583
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1354571x.2012.667222
OpenAlexW2132666562
LanguageEN
References cited22

Historians of discourse formation have demonstrated how, in the decades following the Risorgimento, Italy was fashioned as the internal ‘other’ of a new, industrial civilization that had surpassed the Mediterranean one of old. In the geopolitical map of Western Europe, Italy occupied the most distant and different territory; its proximity to Africa and the Near East, its heterogeneous racial make-up, including ‘Arab blood’, and its predominantly unchanged rural economy confirmed its status as the primitive within. The essays gathered in this special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies enrich the pervasive view of Italy's subaltern status by examining the ways in which the dichotomies of the progressive and backward, western and the non-western, northern and Mediterranean, were often reinforced, but also interrogated or collapsed by Italian ethnologists, artists, art historians and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Ancient history · Archaeology · Civilization · Dichotomy · Ethnology · Geopolitics · Political science · Politics · Subaltern · Anarchism and Radical Politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci

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