TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daniela Baratieri
PY  - 2011
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035100594
TI  - Memories and Silences Haunted by Fascism
T2  - Italian Colonialism MCMXXX-MCMLX
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0059-4
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043810
N2  - Fascist and colonial legacies have been determinant in shaping how Italian colonialism has been narrated in Italy till the late 1960s. This book deals with the complex problem of public memory and discursive amnesia.  The detailed research that underpins this book makes it no longer possible to claim that after 1945 there was an absolute and traumatic silence concerning Italy’s colonial occupation of North and East Africa. However, the abiding public use of this history confirms the existence of an extremely selective and codified memory of that past.   The author shows that colonial discourse persisted in historiography, newspapers, newsreels and film. Popular culture appears intertwined with political and economic interests and the power inscribed in elite and scientific knowledge. While readdressing the often mistaken historical time line that ignores that actual Italian colonial ties did not end with the fall of Fascism, but in 1960 with Somalia becoming independent, this book suggests that a new post Fascist Italian identity was the crucial issue in reappraisals of a national colonial past.
KW  - Hist. Culture and Humanities, Use of Media In Government, Politics, Society, Folklore, ethnology and cultural studies, Contemporary History
LA  - English
ER  -