Chapter Rereading Italian Travellers to Africa: Precursors, Identities and Interracial Relations in Narratives of Italian Colonialism

• Auteur principal: De Donno, Fabrizio (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Florence Firenze University Press 2022
• Collection: Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History 1
• Sujets: History; Africa; colonial identity; race; sex; gender
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

This essay considers a number of travellers' writings about Africa which are reread to construct and deconstruct Italian colonial identity. It focuses on Cesare Cesari's Viaggi africani di Pellegrino Matteucci (1932), which deems Matteucci a precursor of Fascist colonialism and contributor to Fascist "colonial science". The essay then moves on to explore the more recent rereading by Angelo Del Boca and Igiaba Scego of respectively Indro Montanelli's XX Battaglione Eritreo (1936) and Errico Emanuelli's Settimana nera (1961). By bringing together and rereading these texts, the essay maps the transformations of Italianness from colonial to postcolonial times and reveals how colonial identity relied on a series of gender, racial and sexual tropes of exploration and conquest.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (18 p.)

ISBN

978-88-5518-579-0.05
9788855185790

Accès

Open Access