EAN: 9783039119653

NATIONAL BELONGINGS KARTONIERT (TB)

Scholars of Italian colonialism have been reluctant to acknowledge the influence that local
populations and their culture had on Italians and on the ways in which they settled and
administered the territories they occupied. This tendency has reinforced the notion that the
European domination of Africa was total both culturally and politically. Yet there is evidence
to suggest that in every sphere of colonial life  the relationship between colonizers and
colonized was more dynamic and complex than has been assumed. The essays in this
interdisciplinary volume address the gap in Italian colonial post-colonial studies by examining
how different notions of 'hybridity' help illuminate the specific nature and circumstances of
the Italian colonial and postcolonial condition. Some of the contributors see hybridity as a
positive challenge to fixed categorizations. Others contend that its hasty deployment promotes
a lack of attention to local difference. Foregrounding specific instances of cultural practice
across a range of media from literature to oral testimony and the internet  this volume
represents a new stage in the study of Italy's colonial past and its postcolonial afterlife.

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