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Author Welch, Rhiannon Noel, author.

Title Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy,1860-1920 / Rhiannon Noel Welch.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
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online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Transnational Italian cultures ; 1
Transnational Italian cultures ; 1.
Contents Introduction: vital subjects -- 1. Colonial (re)productivity -- 2. Immunitary technologies -- 3. Mutilated limbs -- 4. Biopolitics and colonial drive -- Epilogue.
Summary Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the "making" of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861-1870) and the end of the First World War (1919). The book includes readings of texts by Italian thinkers such as Leopoldo Franchetti and Paolo Mantegazza and it offers new readings of well- and lesser-known texts by a writer who has become Italy's most infamous precursor to Mussolini: poet, novelist, and political provocateur Gabriele D'Annunzio. Vital Subjects concludes with an original analysis of an early film that figures prominently in the history of cinema: Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 silent film Cabiria--produced in the wake of the Italian invasion of Libya (1911-12) and celebrating ancient Roman imperialism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language English.
Subject Biopolitics -- Italy -- History.
Race -- History.
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1870-1914.
Italy -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
National characteristics, Italian.
Nationalism -- Italy -- History.
Fascism and culture -- Italy -- History.
Biopolitique -- Italie -- Histoire.
Race -- Histoire.
Italie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1870-1914.
Italie -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 20e siècle.
Italiens.
Nationalisme -- Italie -- Histoire.
Fascisme et culture -- Italie -- Histoire.
European history.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Biopolitics
Fascism and culture
Manners and customs
National characteristics, Italian
Nationalism
Politics and government
Race
Italy https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvd8mVMcRhwVmbtcqCPcP
Chronological Term 1870-1999
Indexed Term Political Science
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: 9781781382868
ISBN 9781781384558 (electronic bk.)
178138455X (electronic bk.)
9781781384466 (electronic bk.)
1781384460 (electronic bk.)
9781781382868 (cased)
1781382867 (cased)
Standard No. 10.26530/OAPEN_608318 doi
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GBVCP 1008666416
GBVCP 1030560919
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