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Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

By (author) Neelam Srivastava
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Published: 9th Feb 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 218mm d 19mm
Weight: 505g
ISBN-10: 1137465832
ISBN-13: 9781137465832
Barcode No: 9781137465832
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This book provides an innovative cultural history of Italian colonialism and its impact on twentieth-century ideas of empire and anti-colonialism. In October 1935, Mussolini's army attacked Ethiopia, defying the League of Nations and other European imperial powers. The book explores the widespread political and literary responses to the invasion, highlighting how Pan-Africanism drew its sustenance from opposition to Italy's late empire-building, and reading the work of George Padmore, Claude McKay, and CLR James alongside the feminist and socialist anti-colonial campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst's broadsheet, New Times and Ethiopia News. Extending into the postwar period, the book examines the fertile connections between anti-colonialism and anti-fascism in Italian literature and art, tracing the emergence of a "resistance aesthetics" in works such as The Battle of Algiers and Giovanni Pirelli's harrowing books of testimony about Algeria's war of independence, both inspired by Frantz Fanon. This book will interest readers passionate about postcolonial studies, the history of Italian imperialism, Pan-Africanism, print cultures, and Italian postwar culture.

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"This book offers a much-needed contribution to a transnational approach in the history of Italian imperialism. For anyone trying to understand the importance of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in international anti-imperial thought, this book offers a valuable starting point." (Eileen Ryan, The American Historical Review, Vol. 124 (4), October, 2019)