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Making and Remaking Italy
Contributor(s): Ascoli, Albert Russell (Editor), Henneberg, Krystyna Von (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1859734472     ISBN-13: 9781859734476
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE: $183.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2001
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Italy
Dewey: 945
Lexile Measure: 1570(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.82" W x 8.86" L (1.16 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Italy
Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated
 
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Publisher Description:
This important new book considers many of the ways in which national identity was imagined, implemented and contested within Italian culture before, during and after the period of Italian unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Taking a fresh approach towards national icons cherished by both Left and Right, the collection's authors examine the complex interaction between a perceived need for national identity and the fragmented nature of the Italian peninsula. In so doing, they draw on examples from a wide range of artistic and cultural media.The book opens with an introduction which defines the case of the Italian 'Risorgimento' and places it within a large context of European and global nation-building and nationalism. Authors discuss how episodes from the distant past were used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists, musicians, and writers to recreate narratives of nationhood, as well as how the problem of Italian identity was before and during the Risorgimento. The question of who belonged in the new Italy, who remained outsiders, and how social and sexual differences entered into defining these groups is also addressed. The book concludes with an analysis of twentieth-century attempts to appropriate and reforge the 'spirit' of the Risorgimento, under Fascism and in our own time.

Contributor Bio(s): Ascoli, Albert Russell: -

Albert Russell is Ascoli Professor of Italian Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley.

Von Henneberg, Krystyna: -

Krystyna Von Henneberg is an Assistant Professor of History, at the University of California, Davis.
 
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