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Journeys Through Fascism : Italian Travel-Writing between the Wars / Charles Burdett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Remapping Cultural History ; 7Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781571815408
  • 9780857453686
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 945.091 22
LOC classification:
  • DG571
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Index -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Writing on Fascist Culture -- 1. Signs of Roman Rule: Italian Tourists and Travellers in the Eastern Mediterranean -- 2. Fascination and Hostility: Two Ambivalent Accounts of Distant Journeys -- 3. The Other Spaces of Fascist Italy: The Cemetery, the Prison and the Internal Colony -- 4. Narratives of Settlement in Italian East Africa 1936–1941 -- 5. Itineraries through Melodrama: Italian Correspondents and the Spanish Civil War -- 6. Representing Rapprochement with Nazi Germany -- 7. Competing Models of Humanity: Perceptions of Russia and the United States on the Eve of the Second World War -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary: During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the New Deal. Examining these observations by writers and journalists, the author throws new light on the evolving ideology of Fascism, how it was experienced and propagated by prominent figures of the time; how the regime created a utopian vision of the Roman past and the imperial future; and how it interpreted the attractions and dangers of other totalitarian cultures. The book helps gain a better understanding of the evolving concepts of imperialism, which were at the heart of Italian Fascism, and thus shows that travel writing can offer an important contribution to historical analysis.
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Frontmatter -- Index -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Writing on Fascist Culture -- 1. Signs of Roman Rule: Italian Tourists and Travellers in the Eastern Mediterranean -- 2. Fascination and Hostility: Two Ambivalent Accounts of Distant Journeys -- 3. The Other Spaces of Fascist Italy: The Cemetery, the Prison and the Internal Colony -- 4. Narratives of Settlement in Italian East Africa 1936–1941 -- 5. Itineraries through Melodrama: Italian Correspondents and the Spanish Civil War -- 6. Representing Rapprochement with Nazi Germany -- 7. Competing Models of Humanity: Perceptions of Russia and the United States on the Eve of the Second World War -- Conclusion -- Index

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During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the New Deal. Examining these observations by writers and journalists, the author throws new light on the evolving ideology of Fascism, how it was experienced and propagated by prominent figures of the time; how the regime created a utopian vision of the Roman past and the imperial future; and how it interpreted the attractions and dangers of other totalitarian cultures. The book helps gain a better understanding of the evolving concepts of imperialism, which were at the heart of Italian Fascism, and thus shows that travel writing can offer an important contribution to historical analysis.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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