Revisioning Italy: National Identity and Global Culture
by Beverly Allen contributions by Mary Russo
University of Minnesota Press, 1997 Paper: 978-0-8166-2727-1 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-2726-4 Library of Congress Classification DG455.R48 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 945.092
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I:
Culture and Place: Italy as a European Country
The Myth of Backward Italy in Modern Europe
Agnew,
John
Italy, Exile Country
Negri,
Antonio
They're Not Children Anymore: The Novelization of “Italians” and “Terrorism”
Allen,
Beverly
“Italy” in Italy: Old Metaphors and New Racisms in the 1990s
Ward,
David
Part II:
Impositions, Race, and Colonization
Italy: Cultural Identity and Spatial Opportunism from a Postcolonial Perspective
Aden,
Mohamed
African Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian War
Bekerie,
Ayele
Shades of Black in Advertising and Popular Culture
Pinkus,
Karen
Is Aida an Orientalist Opera?
Robinson,
Paul
Part III:
Immigrations
Strangers in Paradise: Foreigners and Shadows in Italian Literature
Parati,
Graziella
The Preclusion of Postcolonial Discourse in Southern Italy
Verdicchio,
Pasquale
Anarquistas, Graças a Deus!: “Italy” in South America
Miller,
Francesca
Part IV:
Postmodernity and Global Italy
Venice, Venice, and L.A.: Cultural Repetition and Bodily Difference
Russo,
Mary
Decolonizing the Screen: From Ladri di biciclette to Ladri di saponette
Waller,
Marguerite R.
If the Japanese Are Samurai, the Italians Are Baka: The Multiple Play of Stereotypes
Marazzi,
Antonio
Spaghetti Eastern: Mutating Mass Culture, Transforming Ethnicity