Italian Orientalism : Nationhood, Cosmopolitanism and the Cultural Politics of Identity Paperback / softback
by Fabrizio De Donno
Part of the Italian Modernities series
Paperback / softback
Description
The on-going debate on the legacies of modern European Orientalism has yet to fully consider its Italian context.
Italian Orientalism is an interdisciplinary and transnational study both of the reception of European Orientalism in Risorgimento Italy, and of the development of an Italian Orientalist expression in the post-unification and fascist periods.
The pan-European phenomenon is approached in its epistemological, aesthetic and political dimensions, while focusing on India and Indology as triggers of the so-called «Oriental Renaissance» and the Indo-European or Aryan idea.
Fabrizio De Donno analyses the relationship between Orientalist scholarship and literary aesthetics in their related European and Italian contexts, mapping their interaction with linguistic, racial, religious and colonial thought.
Paying particular attention to some of the major Italian intellectual, academic and literary figures of the time – from Giovanni Berchet, Giacomo Leopardi and Carlo Cattaneo, to Angelo De Gubernatis, Cesare Lombroso, Carlo Conti Rossini, Giosuè Carducci, Guido Gozzano and others – the book explores how Orientalism and Aryanism emerge as major if controversial discourses of modernity.
They provide the rhetorical tools of identity politics which, it is argued, are central to notions of Italian nationhood, cosmopolitanism and Euromania.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:366 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:22/03/2019
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- ISBN:9781788740180
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:366 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:22/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788740180
