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The Historic Imaginary

Politics of History in Fascist Italy

By: Claudio Fogu

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The Historic Imaginary

Politics of History in Fascist Italy

By: Claudio Fogu

Focusing on both ritual and mass-visual representations of history in 1920s and 1930s Italy, The Historic Imaginary unveils how Italian Fascism sought to institutionalize a modernist culture of history. The study takes a new historicist and microhistorical approach to cultural-intellectual history, integrating theoretical tools of analysis acquired from visual-cultural studies, art history, linguistics, and reception theory in a sophisticated examination of visual modes of historical representation - from commemorations to monuments to exhibitions and mass-media - spanning the entire period of the Italian-fascist regime. Claudio Fogu argues that the fascist historic imaginary was intellectually rooted in the actualist philosophy of history elaborated by Giovanni Gentile, culturally grounded in Latin-Catholic rhetorical codes, and aimed at overcoming both Marxist and liberal conceptions of the relationship between historical agency, representation, and consciousness. The book further proposes that this modernist vision of history was a core element of fascist ideology, encapsulated by the famous Mussolinian motto that "fascism makes history rather than writing it," and that its institutionalization constituted a key point of intersection between the fascist aesthetization and sacralization of politics. The author finally claims that his study of fascist historic culture opens the way to an understanding and re-evaluation of the historical relationship between the modernist critique of historical consciousness and the rise of post-modernist forms of temporality.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802087647

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The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

By: Richard Ned Lebow,Wulf Kansteiner,Claudio Fogu

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The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

By: Richard Ned Lebow,Wulf Kansteiner,Claudio Fogu

Comparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).

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388

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Duke University Press

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0822338173

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9780822338178

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians

By: Claudio Fogu

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The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians

By: Claudio Fogu

This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or 'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial notion of the nation-state, and over-identified Italy with its capital, Rome, this book highlights the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, this book re-interprets key historical processes and actors in the history of modern Italy, and thereby challenges mainstream interpretations of Italian collective identity as weak or incomplete. Ultimately, it argues that Mediterranean imaginaries acted as counterweights to the solidification of a 'national' Italian identity, and still constitute alternative but equally viable modes of collective belonging.

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302

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Springer Nature

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3030598578

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9783030598570

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians

By: Claudio Fogu

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Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians

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Palgrave Macmillan

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3030598594

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The Historic Imaginary

Politics of History in Fascist Italy

By: Claudio Fogu

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Politics of History in Fascist Italy

By: Claudio Fogu

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The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

By: Richard Ned Lebow,Wulf Kansteiner,Claudio Fogu

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The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

By: Richard Ned Lebow,Wulf Kansteiner,Claudio Fogu

For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring countries. This collection provides a comparative case study of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in seven European nations: France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia). The contributors include scholars of history, literature, political science, psychology, and sociology. Country by country, they bring to the fore the specifics of each nation’s postwar memories in essays commissioned especially for this volume. The use of similar analytical categories facilitates comparisons. An extensive introduction contains reflections on the significance of Europeans’ memories of World War II and a conclusion provides an analysis of the implications of the contributors’ findings for memory studies. These two pieces tease out some of the findings common to all seven countries: for instance, in each nation, the decade and a half between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s was the period of most profound change in the politics of memory. At the same time, the contributors demonstrate that Europeans understand World War II primarily through national frames of reference, which are surprisingly varied. Memories of the war have important ramifications for the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe and the consolidation of the European Union. This volume clarifies how those memories are formed and institutionalized. Contributors. Claudio Fogu, Richard J. Golsan, Wulf Kansteiner, Richard Ned Lebow, Regula Ludi, Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Heidemarie Uhl, Thomas C. Wolfe

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Duke University Press

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0822388332

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Book's by Claudio Fogu

The Historic Imaginary

The Historic Imaginary

The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

The Fishing Net and the Spider Web

The Historic Imaginary

The Historic Imaginary

The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

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