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Re-Making the Italians: Collective Identities in the Contemporary Italian Historical Novel

Re-Making the Italians: Collective Identities in the Contemporary Italian Historical Novel

Hardcover

Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 3631623615
ISBN13: 9783631623619
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Apr 9 2012
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.41
Language: English
Can the unprecedented rise of the historical genre in Italy after 1980 be explained out of the Umberto Eco effect alone, as many critics believe? Why are so many Italians nowadays inclined to believe in their Celtic origins? How many middle Ages were there and do we actually live in a high-tech version of them? Has Italy ever been unified? This book discusses the ongoing literary quest for new collective identities in the present-day Italian nation challenged by European integration, globalisation and the burgeoning regionalism, and shows the intricate routes of historical revision on which contemporary Italian fiction embarks.

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