Italy's 'Southern Question': Orientalism in One Country

ISBN-13: 9781859739921 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 308 str.

Jane Schneider

Opis

Jane Schneider is a Professor of Anthropology, at the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments, Introduction: The Dynamics of Neo-orientalism in Italy (1848-1995), 1. Before the Southern Question: "Native" Ideas on Backwardness and Remedies in the Kingdom ofTwo Sicilies, 1815-1849, 2. The Emergence of the Southern Question in Villari, Franchetti, and Sonnino, 3. How Many Italies? Representing the South in Official Statistics, 4. Biology or Environment? Race and Southern "Deviancy" in the Writings of Italian Criminologists, 1880-1920, 5. Homo Siculus: Essentialism in the Writing of Giovanni Verga, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Leonardo Sciascia, 6. The Souths of Antonio Gramsci and the Concept of Hegemony, 7. How Critical Was De Martino's "Critical Ethnocentrism" in Southern Italy?, 8. The Magic of the South: Popular Religion and Elite Catholicism in Italian Ethnology, 9. Casting Off the "Southern Problem": Or the Peculiarities of the South Reconsidered, 10. "Virtuous Clientelism": The Southern Question Resolved?, 11. IL Caso Sciascia: Dilemmas of the Antimafia Movement in Sicily, 12. Re-writing Sicily: Postmodern Perspectives, 13. Contemplating the Palm Tree Line, 14. Two Italies: Rhetorical Figures of Failed Nationhood, Notes on Contributors, Index

O autorze

Jane Schneider Professor of Anthropology,Graduate and University Center, City University of New York