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Italian Children's Literature and National Identity: Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity

Italian Children's Literature and National Identity: Childhood, Melancholy, Modernity

Paperback

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0367346389
ISBN13: 9780367346386
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 14 2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book examines how children's books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. 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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