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

Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations 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 Analysis Political Science Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Subject Biopolitics -- Italy -- History Race -- History National characteristics, Italian. Nationalism -- Italy -- History Fascism and culture -- Italy -- History European history. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian. Biopolitics Fascism and culture Manners and customs National characteristics, Italian Nationalism Politics and government Race SUBJECT Italy -- Politics and government -- 1870-1914. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069008 Italy -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Subject Italy Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781781384558 178138455X 9781781384466 1781384460

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