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.
Inhoudsopgave
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing on Fascist Culture
Chapter 1. Signs of Roman Rule: Italian Tourists and Travellers in the Eastern Mediterranean
Chapter 2. Fascination and Hostility: Two Ambivalent Accounts of Distant Journeys
Chapter 3. The Other Spaces of Fascist Italy: The Cemetery, the Prison and the Internal Colony
Chapter 4. Narratives of Settlement in Italian East Africa 1936–1941
Chapter 5. Itineraries through Melodrama: Italian Correspondents and the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 6. Representing Rapprochement with Nazi Germany
Chapter 7. Competing Models of Humanity: Perceptions of Russia and the United States on the Eve of the Second World War
Conclusion
Index
Over de auteur
Charles Burdett, Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Bristol, specializes on Italian culture under Fascism. He is the author of Vincenzo Cardarelli and his Contemporaries (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is the editor with Claire Gorrara and Helmut Peitsch of European Memories of the Second World War (Berghahn Books, 1999) and with Derek Duncan, of Cultural Encounters: European Travel Writing of the 1930s (Berghahn Books, 2002).
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