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9780521761017

Italian Vices: Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521761017

  • ISBN10:

    0521761018

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-03-08
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Why do Italians believe that they have a national character and that this character is a major reason for their political woes? Why is their self-image so frequently derogatory? In this meticulous new study of the role of national character in Italian political and social discourse, Silvana Patriarca reconstructs the genealogy of a pervasive idea in the culture of modern Italy. Using sources ranging from political pamphlets to newspapers and films, this book shows how self-representations of national character and its vices were shaped by foreign perceptions and stereotypes, internal political struggles, and changing intellectual paradigms. Investigating the politics of these representations, their ideological content, and their uses, the author recasts the study of Italian patriotism and nationalism as discourses and sheds new light on Italian political culture and on the rhetoric of nationalism more generally.

Table of Contents

List of illustrationsp. viii
Acknowledgementsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Indolence and regenerationp. 20
Making citizens of characterp. 51
Latin individualism: dissecting character in the age of empirep. 79
Virtues of war: Italian character "tested" and "revealed"p. 108
"A difficult substance to modify"p. 133
"Autobiographies" of the nationp. 161
"Good people"?p. 188
"Italians, that's the way we are"p. 214
Conclusionsp. 241
Select bibliographyp. 247
Indexp. 270
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