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Making and Remaking Italy - The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento (Paperback, First)
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Making and Remaking Italy - The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento (Paperback, First)
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This important new book considers many of the ways in which
national identity was imagined, implemented and contested within
Italian culture before, during and after the period of Italian
unification in the mid-nineteenth century. Taking a fresh approach
towards national icons cherished by both Left and Right, the
collection's authors examine the complex interaction between a
perceived need for national identity and the fragmented nature of
the Italian peninsula. In so doing, they draw on examples from a
wide range of artistic and cultural media.
The book opens with an introduction which defines the case of the
Italian 'Risorgimento' and places it within a large context of
European and global nation-building and nationalism. Authors
discuss how episodes from the distant past were used by nineteenth-
and twentieth-century artists, musicians, and writers to recreate
narratives of nationhood, as well as how the problem of Italian
identity was before and during the Risorgimento. The question of
who belonged in the new Italy, who remained outsiders, and how
social and sexual differences entered into defining these groups is
also addressed. The book concludes with an analysis of
twentieth-century attempts to appropriate and reforge the 'spirit'
of the Risorgimento, under Fascism and in our own time.
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