Italian Orientalism; Nationhood, Cosmopolitanism and the Cultural Politics of Identity

ISBN-13: 9781788740180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 366 str.

Fabrizio De Donno

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Orientalism versus Classicism? Debating «Europeanness» in Risorgimento Discourse - Orientalism and the Romantic Risorgimento: The Manifestos of Giovanni Berchet and Ludovico Di Breme - Negative Orientalism: Giacomo Leopardi's Neoclassical-Romantic Protest Against European Modernity - Italian Orientalistica: Indology, Aryan Ideology and the Philological Sciences of Euromania - Race, Religion and Colonialism in Italian Orientalism and Anthropology: From the Indo-European to the Eurafrican - Positivist Indic Orientalism in Anton Giulio Barrili's Il tesoro di Golconda and Giosuè Carducci's «All'Aurora» - Guido Gozzano's Verso la cuna del mondo: Modernism, Existentialism and British India - Orientalism and Propaganda in Fascist Italy: Nation, Race and Empire.

O autorze

Fabrizio De Donno is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.