I am a scholar interested in the development of modern visual culture and collective imaginaries. My work has focused on Italy, initially on the visualization of the historical past during fascism, and, more recently, on the Mediterranean imaginaries developed in Italian culture and thought.
Page 1. RICHARD NED LEBOW, WULF KANSTEINER. CLAUDIO FOGU. editors THE POLITICS OF MEMORY IN POSTW... more Page 1. RICHARD NED LEBOW, WULF KANSTEINER. CLAUDIO FOGU. editors THE POLITICS OF MEMORY IN POSTWAR EUROPE Page 2. the politics of memory in postwar europe Page 3. Page 4. / The Politics of Memory ...
IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "I musei del dolore," published in 1920, Antonio Monti, ... more IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "I musei del dolore," published in 1920, Antonio Monti, a young employee of the historical museum of the Risorgimento in Milan, recalled the "uneasiness" of a tramful of Milanese passengers when a veteran boarded the car: his face had been disfigured and ...
... Il culto del littorio: la sacralizzazione della politica nell'Italia fascista. ... margi... more ... Il culto del littorio: la sacralizzazione della politica nell'Italia fascista. ... marginal by comparison with the "symbolic-liturgical interpretation of the MRF given by the fascist press" (233), Gentile shies away from engaging in any dialogue with either Walter Benjamin's famous thesis or ...
Over the past two decades, a multidisciplinary cohort of American scholars comprising historians,... more Over the past two decades, a multidisciplinary cohort of American scholars comprising historians, art historians, and literary critics as well as anthropologists and sociologists have probed into the previously unexplored complexities of the cultural practices developed ...
Page 1. RICHARD NED LEBOW, WULF KANSTEINER. CLAUDIO FOGU. editors THE POLITICS OF MEMORY IN POSTW... more Page 1. RICHARD NED LEBOW, WULF KANSTEINER. CLAUDIO FOGU. editors THE POLITICS OF MEMORY IN POSTWAR EUROPE Page 2. the politics of memory in postwar europe Page 3. Page 4. / The Politics of Memory ...
IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "I musei del dolore," published in 1920, Antonio Monti, ... more IN AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "I musei del dolore," published in 1920, Antonio Monti, a young employee of the historical museum of the Risorgimento in Milan, recalled the "uneasiness" of a tramful of Milanese passengers when a veteran boarded the car: his face had been disfigured and ...
... Il culto del littorio: la sacralizzazione della politica nell'Italia fascista. ... margi... more ... Il culto del littorio: la sacralizzazione della politica nell'Italia fascista. ... marginal by comparison with the "symbolic-liturgical interpretation of the MRF given by the fascist press" (233), Gentile shies away from engaging in any dialogue with either Walter Benjamin's famous thesis or ...
Over the past two decades, a multidisciplinary cohort of American scholars comprising historians,... more Over the past two decades, a multidisciplinary cohort of American scholars comprising historians, art historians, and literary critics as well as anthropologists and sociologists have probed into the previously unexplored complexities of the cultural practices developed ...
Sabato 18 e domenica 19 novembre 2017
Parma
C/o Centro Studi Movimenti di Parma (Via Giuseppe Sa... more Sabato 18 e domenica 19 novembre 2017 Parma C/o Centro Studi Movimenti di Parma (Via Giuseppe Saragat 33/a)
The Fishing Net and The Spider Web. Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians, 2020
This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Itali... more 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 focused on the territorial notion of the nation-state and the myth of Rome, I highlight the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, the 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, I argue 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.
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