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Beyond Pinocchio - Andrea Pagani

Beyond Pinocchio

Political and Cultural Dissonance in Carlo Collodi's Primers (1877-1890)

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1732-1 (ISBN)
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Beyond Pinocchio analyzes Carlo Collodi’s debunking the backbone of bourgeois propaganda through books meant to shape young Italians’ national identity. This book adds on to the recent re-reading of Collodi’s oeuvre, and reinforce the need for a fresh examination of his works beyond his world-known Le Avventure di Pinocchio.
Beyond Pinocchio is a meticulous examination of renowned author Carlo Collodi’s primers and his debunking Italian bourgeois propaganda ‘from within’. In his government-approved books for primary school, Collodi offered a view of society that was dissonant with the one promoted by Italian middle class propaganda in its very core values: the family, the State, and the cultural homogenization.

Collodi’s reputation as a supporter of bourgeois values has remained crystallized for decades, and even his most famous character, Pinocchio, has been seen as embodying those values for many years. Recently, however, this reputation has been questioned, thereby reframing the wooden puppet within an anti-establishment context.

With this book, Andrea Pagani proves how even Collodi’s primers deserve a careful re-reading, throwing light on an author too quickly labelled as an uncritical son of his times. At a time when a newborn State was aiming towards a standardized national community, Collodi wrote of a multicultural Italy, where the family is an empty concept, and linguistic diversity is an asset rather than a hindrance.

Andrea Pagani is teaching associate at Monash University, and radio broadcaster at Australian public radio SBS.

Collodi’s Books for School (First Editions)

Introduction

Chapter 1: Collodi and Private Authority

Chapter 2: Public Authority

Chapter 3: Dialects and Identity in The Giannettino Collection

Chapter 4: National or Local? Celebrations And Food in Collodi’s Schoolbooks

Conclusion

Appendix A: Further Readings

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 238 mm
Gewicht 458 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-6669-1732-X / 166691732X
ISBN-13 978-1-6669-1732-1 / 9781666917321
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