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Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism (Paperback)
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Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism (Paperback)
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To be a tourist in Libya during the period of Italian colonization
was to experience a complex negotiation of cultures. Against a
sturdy backdrop of indigenous culture and architecture, modern
metropolitan culture brought its systems of transportation and
accommodation, as well as new hierarchies of political and social
control. Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya shows
how Italian authorities used the contradictory forces of tradition
and modernity to both legitimize their colonial enterprise and
construct a vital tourist industry. Although most tourists sought
to escape the trappings of the metropole in favor of experiencing
"difference," that difference was almost always framed, contained,
and even defined by Western culture. McLaren argues that the
"modern" and the "traditional" were entirely constructed by
colonial authorities, who balanced their need to project an image
of a modern and efficient network of travel and accommodation with
the necessity of preserving the characteristic qualities of the
indigenous culture. What made the tourist experience in Libya
distinct from that of other tourist destinations was the constant
oscillation between modernizing and preservation tendencies. The
movement between these forces is reflected in the structure of the
book, which proceeds from the broadest level of inquiry into the
Fascist colonial project in Libya to the tourist organization
itself, and finally into the architecture of the tourist
environment, offering a way of viewing state-driven modernization
projects and notions of modernity from a historical and geographic
perspective. This is an important book for architectural historians
and for those interested in colonial and postcolonial studies, as
well as Italian studies, African history, literature, and cultural
studies more generally.
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