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Polezzi, Loredana (2014) Description, appropriation, transformation : Fascist rhetoric and colonial nature. Modern Italy, Volume 19 (Issue 3). pp. 287-303. doi:10.1080/13532944.2014.927355 ISSN 1469-9877.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2014.927355
Abstract
During the period of Fascism, a variety of discourses and representations where attached to colonial landscapes and to their uses. African nature was the subject of diverse rhetorical strategies, which ranged from the persistence of visions of wilderness as the locus of adventure to the domesticating manipulations of an incipient tourist industry aiming to familiarize the Italian public with relatively tame forms of the exotic. Contrasting images of bareness and productivity, primitivism and modernization, resistance to change and dramatic transformation found their way into accounts of colonial territories ranging from scientific and pseudo-scientific reports to children’s literature, from guide books to travel accounts, all of which were sustained not just by written texts but also by iconographic representations.
The article will look at the specific example of accounts of Italian Somalia in order to explore Fascist discourses about colonial nature and its appropriation. Documents examined will include early guidebooks to the colonies, a small selection of travel accounts aimed at the general public, as well as the works of a number of geographers and geologists who were among the most active polygraphs of the period, and whose writings addressed a wide range of Italian readers.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Fascism and literature -- Italy -- History, Somalia -- In literature, Somalia -- Guidebooks, Italy -- Colonies -- Africa, Colonies in literature | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Modern Italy | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1469-9877 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 28 August 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 19 | ||||||||
Number: | Issue 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 287-303 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13532944.2014.927355 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 July 2016 |
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