TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stefania Del Monte
PY  - 2015
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653056228
TI  - Staging Memory
T2  - Myth, Symbolism and Identity in Postcolonial Italy and Libya
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05622-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049194
N2  - Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi’s deliberate use of rituals, symbols, and the colonial past to shape national identity in Libya. The argument is sustained by case studies ranging among film, documentary, literature and art, shedding new light on how memory has been treated in the two postcolonial societies examined. The last part briefly analyses the identity transformation process in the new Libya.
KW  - roots of myth, colonial amnesia, postwar Italy, censorship
LA  - English
ER  -