Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy,1860-1920 /
Welch, Rhiannon Noel,
Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy,1860-1920 / Rhiannon Noel Welch. - 1 online resource : illustrations. - Transnational Italian cultures ; 1 . - Transnational Italian cultures ; 1. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: vital subjects -- 1. Colonial (re)productivity -- 2. Immunitary technologies -- 3. Mutilated limbs -- 4. Biopolitics and colonial drive -- Epilogue.
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.
English.
9781781384558 178138455X 9781781384466 1781384460
10.26530/OAPEN_608318 doi
22573/ctt1gnz5mq JSTOR 000051 Knowledge Unlatched
2016429689
GBB641473 bnb
1870-1999
Biopolitics--History.--Italy
Race--History.
National characteristics, Italian.
Nationalism--History.--Italy
Fascism and culture--History.--Italy
European history.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--Italian.
Biopolitics.
Fascism and culture.
Manners and customs.
National characteristics, Italian.
Nationalism.
Politics and government.
Race.
Italy--Politics and government--1870-1914.
Italy--Social life and customs--20th century.
Italy.
Political Science
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
JA80 / .W45 2016eb DG555 / .W45 2016eb
900
Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy,1860-1920 / Rhiannon Noel Welch. - 1 online resource : illustrations. - Transnational Italian cultures ; 1 . - Transnational Italian cultures ; 1. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: vital subjects -- 1. Colonial (re)productivity -- 2. Immunitary technologies -- 3. Mutilated limbs -- 4. Biopolitics and colonial drive -- Epilogue.
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.
English.
9781781384558 178138455X 9781781384466 1781384460
10.26530/OAPEN_608318 doi
22573/ctt1gnz5mq JSTOR 000051 Knowledge Unlatched
2016429689
GBB641473 bnb
1870-1999
Biopolitics--History.--Italy
Race--History.
National characteristics, Italian.
Nationalism--History.--Italy
Fascism and culture--History.--Italy
European history.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--Italian.
Biopolitics.
Fascism and culture.
Manners and customs.
National characteristics, Italian.
Nationalism.
Politics and government.
Race.
Italy--Politics and government--1870-1914.
Italy--Social life and customs--20th century.
Italy.
Political Science
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
JA80 / .W45 2016eb DG555 / .W45 2016eb
900