Fascist Hybridities : Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini

Name: Fascist Hybridities
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781137481849
Price: 16200 KES
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ISBN: 9781137481849

Book Details

Format Hardback

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 history 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies History European history

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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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