The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians - Couverture rigide

Fogu, Claudio

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 303059856X ISBN 13 : 9783030598563

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020

Synopsis

This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or 'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial notion of the nation-state, and over-identified Italy with its capital, Rome, this book highlights the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, this book re-interprets key historical processes and actors in the history of modern Italy, and thereby challenges mainstream interpretations of Italian collective identity as weak or incomplete. Ultimately, it argues that Mediterranean imaginaries acted as counterweights to the solidification of a 'national' Italian identity, and still constitute alternative but equally viable modes of collective belonging.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Claudio Fogu is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 303059856X
• ISBN 13: 9783030598563
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 309
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