Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860-1900 - Hardcover

Dickie, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333802187 ISBN 13: 9780333802182

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

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DICKIE, J. DARKEST ITALY. THE NATION AND STEREOTYPES OF THE MEZZOGIORNO, 1860-1900. LONDON, 2000, 240 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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'Dickie leaves little doubt about the way that use of the stereotype could explain the perceived failures and shortcomings of the new nation.' - Italian Politics and Society

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Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyses these stereotypes in the post-Unification period, when the Mezzogiorno was widely seen as barbaric, violent or irrational, an 'Africa' on the European continent. At the same time, this is the moment when the Mezzogiorno became a metaphor for the state of the country as a whole, the index of Italy's modernity. Dickie argues that these stereotypes, rather than being a symptom of the failings of national identity in Italy, were actually integral to the way Italy's bourgeoisie imagined themselves as Italian. Drawing on recent theories of Otherness and national identity, Dickie brings a new light to an important and well-established area of Italian history - the relationship between the South and the nation as a whole.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333802187
• ISBN 13: 9780333802182
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240