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Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970 (eBook)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
XI, 266 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-46584-9 (ISBN)

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Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970 - Neelam Srivastava
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This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. In October 1935, Mussoliniʼs army attacked Ethiopia, defying the League of Nations and other European imperial powers. The book explores the widespread political and literary responses to the invasion, highlighting how Pan-Africanism drew its sustenance from opposition to Italy's late empire-building, and reading the work of George Padmore, Claude McKay, and CLR James alongside the feminist and socialist anti-colonial campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst's broadsheet, New Times and Ethiopia News. Extending into the postwar period, the book examines the fertile connections between anti-colonialism and anti-fascism in Italian literature and art, tracing the emergence of a 'resistance aesthetics' in works such as The Battle of Algiers and Giovanni Pirelli's harrowing books of testimony about Algeria's war of independence, both inspired by Frantz Fanon. This book will interest readers passionate about postcolonial studies, the history of Italian imperialism, Pan-Africanism, print cultures, and Italian postwar culture. 



Neelam Srivastava is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has co-edited Indian Literature and the World: Multi-lingualism, Translation and the Public Sphere (2017) and The Postcolonial Gramsci (2012), and has published widely on Italian colonial/postcolonial cultures and on South Asian literature. She is the author of Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel (2007).  


This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. In October 1935, Mussolini's army attacked Ethiopia, defying the League of Nations and other European imperial powers. The book explores the widespread political and literary responses to the invasion, highlighting how Pan-Africanism drew its sustenance from opposition to Italy's late empire-building, and reading the work of George Padmore, Claude McKay, and CLR James alongside the feminist and socialist anti-colonial campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst's broadsheet, New Times and Ethiopia News. Extending into the postwar period, the book examines the fertile connections between anti-colonialism and anti-fascism in Italian literature and art, tracing the emergence of a "e;resistance aesthetics"e; in works such as The Battle of Algiers and Giovanni Pirelli's harrowing books of testimony about Algeria's war of independence, bothinspired by Frantz Fanon. This book will interest readers passionate about postcolonial studies, the history of Italian imperialism, Pan-Africanism, print cultures, and Italian postwar culture. 

Neelam Srivastava is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has co-edited Indian Literature and the World: Multi-lingualism, Translation and the Public Sphere (2017) and The Postcolonial Gramsci (2012), and has published widely on Italian colonial/postcolonial cultures and on South Asian literature. She is the author of Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel (2007).  

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Italian Anti-Colonialism and the Ethiopian WarChapter 3: “Ethiopia’s Cause is our Cause”: Black Internationalism and the Italian Invasion of EthiopiaChapter 4: Harlem’s Ethiopia: Literary Pan-Africanism and the Italian InvasionChapter 5: A Partisan Press: Sylvia Pankhurst, British Anti-Colonialism, and the Crisis of EmpireChapter 6: Internationalism and Third-Worldism in Postwar ItalyChapter 7: African Decolonization and the Resistance Aesthetics of Pontecorvo, Orsini, and Pirelli.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2018
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Zusatzinfo XI, 266 p.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Schlagworte Colonialism • Empire • Europe • History • imperialism • Italy • resistance
ISBN-10 1-137-46584-0 / 1137465840
ISBN-13 978-1-137-46584-9 / 9781137465849
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