Vital Subjects : Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920.

Vital Subjects examines cultural production--literature, sociology and public health discourse, and early film--from the years between Unification and the end of the First World War (ca. 1860 and 1920) in order to explore how race and colonialism were integral to modern Italian national culture, rat...

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Main Author: Welch, Rhiannon Noel.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Transnational Italian Cultures Series
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Summary:Vital Subjects examines cultural production--literature, sociology and public health discourse, and early film--from the years between Unification and the end of the First World War (ca. 1860 and 1920) in order to explore how race and colonialism were integral to modern Italian national culture, rather than a marginal afterthought or a Fascist aberration.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages)
ISBN:9781781384558