Overview
- Examines Italian colonialism and its impact on the development of anti-colonial movements
- Explores the deep ethical and political links between anti-fascism and anti-colonialism
- Re-thinks the relationship between Marxism and postcolonial studies
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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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, Mussoliniʼs 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, bothinspired 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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Neelam Srivastava is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She has co-edited Indian Literature and the World: Multi-lingualism, Translation and the Public Sphere (2017) and The Postcolonial Gramsci (2012), and has published widely on Italian colonial/postcolonial cultures and on South Asian literature. She is the author of Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel (2007).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970
Authors: Neelam Srivastava
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46584-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46583-2Published: 09 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46584-9Published: 01 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 266
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Modern Europe, African History, Political History, History of Military