Vital Subjects : Race and Biopolitics in Italy / Rhiannon Noel Welch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welch, Rhiannon Noel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, UK : Liverpool University Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Colonial (Re)productivity 34

Chapter 2 Immunitary Technologies 75

Chapter 3 Mutilated Limbs 123

Chapter 4 Biopolitics and Colonial Drive 179.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Knowledge Unlatched Round 2

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103486

ISBN:

9781781382868

OCLC:

973187839

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access