Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: Italian Colonial Cultures 1
4. Part I. The shaping of Italian Colonial History: Political Practices and Theoretical Legitimization
5. The Myths, Suppressions, Denials, and Defaults of Italian Colonialism 17
6. Studies and Research on Fascist Colonialism, 1922–1935: Reflections on the State of the Art 37
7. Italian Anthropology and the Africans: The Early Colonial Period 62
8. The Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea: The Liberal and Early Fascist Period (1897–1934) 81
9. Part II. Colonial Literature: From Exploration to a Domestic Empire
10. Gifts, Sex, and Guns: Nineteenth-Century Italian Explorers in Africa 119
11. Incorporating the Exotic: From Futurist Excess to Postmodern Impasse 138
12. Alexandria Revisited: Colonialism and the Egyptian Works of Enrico Pea and Giuseppe Ungaretti 163
13. Mass-Mediated Fantasies of Feminine Conquest, 1930 –1940 197
14. Orphans for the Empire: Colonial Propaganda and Children’s Literature during the Imperial Era 225
15. Part III: The Colonial Production of Africa and the Silent Scene of Decolonization
16. Colonial Autism: Whitened Heroes, Auditory Rhetoric, and National Identity in Interwar Italian Cinema 255
17. Black Shirts/Black Skins: Fascist Italy’s Colonial Anxieties and Lo Squadrone Bianco 279
18. Empty Spaces: Decolonization in Italy 299
19. Notes on Contributors 321
20. Index 325