Memories and silences haunted by Fascism : Italian colonialism, MCMXXX-MCMLX / Daniela Baratieri.
Fascist and colonial legacies have been determinant in shaping how Italian colonialism has been narrated in Italy till the late 1960s. This book deals with the complex problem of public memory and discursive amnesia. The detailed research that underpins this book makes it no longer possible to claim that after 1945 there was an absolute and traumatic silence concerning Italy's colonial occupation of North and East Africa. However, the abiding public use of this history confirms the existence of an extremely selective and codified memory of that past. The author shows that colonial discourse persisted in historiography, newspapers, newsreels and film. Popular culture appears intertwined with political and economic interests and the power inscribed in elite and scientific knowledge. While readdressing the often mistaken historical time line that ignores that actual Italian colonial ties did not end with the fall of Fascism, but in 1960 with Somalia becoming independent, this book suggests that a new post Fascist Italian identity was the crucial issue in reappraisals of a national colonial past.
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| Ort, Verlag, Jahr |
Bern ; New York
: Peter Lang
, 2010
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| Umfang | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| ISBN | 1-299-41786-8 3-0351-0059-4 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Zusatzinfo | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Zusatzinfo | Contents; Acknowledgments 11; Introduction 13; Part 1 Theatres of Memory:Hegemony in the Structures Producing Culture 31; 1. The Makers of Italian News in Motion 37; 2. The Italian Press across Different Political Regimes 45; 3. Audiences 63; Part 2 Searching for Total Silence 73; 1. Cinema: A Question of Total Silence? 79; 2. Cinema and the Persistence of Desire 93; 3. Newsreels: Comparing Fascist and Non-Fascist Imaginary 115; 4. The Illustrated Press and the Verbosity of Silence 139; Part 3 Hands on Memories and Silences 177; 1. Hunting and the Appropriation of Africa 181 2. The Myths of Italians Good People 1893. African Decolonisation in the Illustrated Press 203; 4. Conflicting Memories 229; 5. The Biography of Things 255; A Case Study: Bengasi Revisited 263; Conclusion 283; Appendix: a Selection of Cartoons 299; Archives and Databases 309; Filmography 311; Bibliography 317; Index 345 |
| Zusatzinfo | English |
| Online-Zugang | Peter Lang ebooks EBS 2024 https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0351-0059-4 |
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