Welch, Rhiannon Noel, <br/><br/>
Vital Subjects :   Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920 /  
Rhiannon Noel Welch. 
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<br/><br/>Introduction: vital subjects -- 1. Colonial (re)productivity -- 2. Immunitary technologies -- 3. Mutilated limbs -- 4. Biopolitics and colonial drive -- Epilogue. 
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<br/><br/> Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the "making" of Italians as modern political subjects in the years between its administrative unification (1861-1870) and the end of the First World War (1919). The book includes readings of texts by Italian thinkers such as Leopoldo Franchetti and Paolo Mantegazza and it offers new readings of well- and lesser-known texts by a writer who has become Italy's most infamous precursor to Mussolini: poet, novelist, and political provocateur Gabriele D'Annunzio. Vital Subjects concludes with an original analysis of an early film that figures prominently in the history of cinema: Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 silent film Cabiria--produced in the wake of the Italian invasion of Libya (1911-12) and celebrating ancient Roman imperialism 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781781384558 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Race.<br/>Politics and government.<br/>Nationalism.<br/>National characteristics, Italian.<br/>Manners and customs.<br/>Fascism and culture.<br/>Biopolitics.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM--European--Italian.<br/>European history.<br/>Fascisme et culture--Histoire.--Italie<br/>Nationalisme--Histoire.--Italie<br/>Italiens.<br/>Race--Histoire.<br/>Biopolitique--Histoire.--Italie<br/>Fascism and culture--History.--Italy<br/>Nationalism--History.--Italy<br/>National characteristics, Italian.<br/>Race--History.<br/>Biopolitics--History.--Italy
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Italy.<br/>Italie--Moeurs et coutumes--20e siecle.<br/>Italie--Politique et gouvernement--1870-1914.<br/>Italy--Social life and customs--20th century.<br/>Italy--Politics and government--1870-1914.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.