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