Fascist Hybridities : Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Italian and Italian American Studies
ISBN-10
1137481846
ISBN-13
9781137481849
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 9th, 2015
Print length
199 Pages
Weight
402 grams
Dimensions
14.90 x 22.30 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
European history20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
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Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at stigmatization were self-undermining, forcing audiences to reassess their collective identity.
While less explicitly racist than its Germany Nazi counterpart, Italian Fascism attached considerable importance to racial purity. Fascist Hybridities examines how Italian literature and cinema of the 1930s are traversed by hybrid figures, and how these works ultimately reveal biracial offspring and Levantines as interchangeable characters who, in the historical scenario under which Mussolini''s Fascist regime operated, present unique and specific threats to notions of Italian racial and cultural purity. As Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto shows, that more often than not, the visual and textual presence of mulatto and Levantine characters stoked deep racial and cultural anxieties, forcing their audiences to uncomfortably examine, rather than confirm, their own collective identity.
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