Maria Truglio

Italian Children's Literature and National Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how children's books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Italian fairy tales, novels, poems, and short stories imply that the personal development of the child corresponds to and naturalizes the modernizing development of the nation. Via a psychoanalytic lens, the book proposes that national identity was constructed via a process of renouncing and incorporating paternal and maternal figures, rendered as compulsory steps into maturity and modernity. Chapters on the heroic figure of Garibaldi, the Orientalized depiction of the South, and the role of girls in formation narratives show how melancholic itineraries produced gendered national subjects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351987554
• Artikelnr.: 48840741

Autorenporträt

Maria Truglio is Associate Professor of Italian and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Two Ounces of Melancholy
1. Garibaldi's Shadows: Heroism and Melancholia
2. Geographic Expressions: Mapping Modernity
3. A Beatrice for Modernity: Girls in Italian Children's Literature
Conclusion: The Heart of the Matter
Bibliography