Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy,1860-1920 / Rhiannon Noel Welch.
Material type: TextSeries: Transnational Italian cultures ; 1.Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781781384558
- 178138455X
- 9781781384466
- 1781384460
- Biopolitics -- Italy -- History
- Race -- History
- Italy -- Politics and government -- 1870-1914
- Italy -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- National characteristics, Italian
- Nationalism -- Italy -- History
- Fascism and culture -- Italy -- History
- European history
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian
- Biopolitics
- Fascism and culture
- Manners and customs
- National characteristics, Italian
- Nationalism
- Politics and government
- Race
- Italy
- 1870-1999
- Political Science
- 900 23
- JA80 .W45 2016eb
- DG555 .W45 2016eb
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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
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