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Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the “making” of Italians as modern political...
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oapen-20.500.12657-300522024-03-25T09:51:43Z Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy Welch, Rhiannon Noel Political Science Biopolitics Cabiria Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy Maciste thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the “making” of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861-1870) and the end of the First World War (1919). The book includes readings of texts by Italian thinkers such as Leopoldo Franchetti and Paolo Mantegazza and it offers new readings of well- and lesser-known texts by a writer who has become Italy’s most infamous precursor to Mussolini: poet, novelist, and political provocateur Gabriele D’Annunzio. Vital Subjects concludes with an original analysis of an early film that figures prominently in the history of cinema: Giovanni Pastrone’s 1914 silent film Cabiria--produced in the wake of the Italian invasion of Libya (1911-12) and celebrating ancient Roman imperialism. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-16 03:00:25 2020-04-01T12:43:34Z 2020-04-01T12:43:34Z 2016-03-01 book 650047 OCN: 945453793 9781781384558 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30052 eng application/pdf n/a 650047.pdf Liverpool University Press 10.26530/oapen_608318 10.26530/oapen_608318 4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781781384558 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Liverpool 103486 KU Round 2 608318 Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the “making” of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861-1870) and the end of the First World War (1919). The book includes readings of texts by Italian thinkers such as Leopoldo Franchetti and Paolo Mantegazza and it offers new readings of well- and lesser-known texts by a writer who has become Italy’s most infamous precursor to Mussolini: poet, novelist, and political provocateur Gabriele D’Annunzio. Vital Subjects concludes with an original analysis of an early film that figures prominently in the history of cinema: Giovanni Pastrone’s 1914 silent film Cabiria--produced in the wake of the Italian invasion of Libya (1911-12) and celebrating ancient Roman imperialism. |
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