Format:
1 online resource (308 pages)
ISBN:
9781000181418
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Dynamics of Neo-orientalism in Italy (1848-1995) -- Part I The Genesis of the Question -- 1 Before the Southern Question: "Native" Ideas on Backwardness and Remedies in the Kingdom of Two 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 -- Part II Critical Theory from the South -- 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 -- Part III Alternative Representations and Realities -- 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 -- Part IV Conclusions -- 13 Contemplating the Palm Tree Line -- 14 Two Italies: Rhetorical Figures of Failed Nationhood -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
9781859739921
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781859739921
Language:
English
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