Italy's 'Southern Question' (eBook, PDF)

Orientalism in One Country
Redaktion: Schneider, Jane

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The 'Southern Question' has been a major topic in Italian political, economic and cultural life for a century and more. During the Cold War, it was the justification for heavy government intervention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000184594
• Artikelnr.: 59558161

Autorenporträt

Jane Schneider Professor of Anthropology,Graduate and University Center, City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Dynamics of Neo-orientalism in Italy (1848-1995)
1. Before the Southern Question: "Native" Ideas on Backwardness and Remedies in the Kingdom ofTwo Sicilies
1815-1849
2. The Emergence of the Southern Question in Villari
Franchetti
and Sonnino
3. How Many Italies? Representing the South in Official Statistics
4. Biology or Environment? Race and Southern "Deviancy" in the Writings of Italian Criminologists
1880-1920
5. Homo Siculus: Essentialism in the Writing of Giovanni Verga
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
and Leonardo Sciascia
6. The Souths of Antonio Gramsci and the Concept of Hegemony
7. How Critical Was De Martino's "Critical Ethnocentrism" in Southern Italy?
8. The Magic of the South: Popular Religion and Elite Catholicism in Italian Ethnology
9. Casting Off the "Southern Problem": Or the Peculiarities of the South Reconsidered
10. "Virtuous Clientelism": The Southern Question Resolved?
11. IL Caso Sciascia: Dilemmas of the Antimafia Movement in Sicily
12. Re-writing Sicily: Postmodern Perspectives
13. Contemplating the Palm Tree Line
14. Two Italies: Rhetorical Figures of Failed Nationhood
Notes on Contributors
Index