Italian Vices: Nation And Character From The Risorgimento To The Republic - Couverture souple

Patriarca, Silvana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107676789 ISBN 13 : 9781107676787

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Why do Italians believe that they have a national character and that this character is a major reason for their political woes? Why is their self-image so frequently derogatory? In this meticulous study of the role of national character in Italian political and social discourse, Silvana Patriarca reconstructs the genealogy of a pervasive idea in the culture of modern Italy. Using sources ranging from political pamphlets to newspapers and films, this book shows how self-representations of national character and its vices were shaped by foreign perceptions and stereotypes, internal political struggles, and changing intellectual paradigms. Investigating the politics of these representations, their ideological content, and their uses, the author recasts the study of Italian patriotism and nationalism as discourses and sheds light on Italian political culture and on the rhetoric of nationalism more generally.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Silvana Patriarca is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Fordham University. She is the author of award-winning Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy (1996).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107676789
• ISBN 13: 9781107676787
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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