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During the twenty years of Mussolini's rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini's newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the New Deal. Examining these observations by writers and journalists, the author throws new light on the evolving ideology of Fascism, how it was experienced and propagated by prominent figures of the time; how the regime created a utopian vision of the Roman past and the imperial future; and how it interpreted the attractions and dangers of other totalitarian cultures. The book helps gain a better understanding of the evolving concepts of imperialism, which were at the heart of Italian Fascism, and thus shows that travel writing can offer an important contribution to historical analysis.

During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the New Deal. Examining these observations by writers and journalists, the author throws new light on the evolving ideology of Fascism, how it was experienced and propagated by prominent figures of the time; how the regime created a utopian vision of the Roman past and the imperial future; and how it interpreted the attractions and dangers of other totalitarian cultures. The book helps gain a better understanding of the evolving concepts of imperialism, which were at the heart of Italian Fascism, and thus shows that travel writing can offer an important contribution to historical analysis.

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany, and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography, and documentary, with the focus being on the extent to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed.

Too much of the country's twentiethcentury history is bound up with it: the memorialisation of World War I, colonial expansion in Africa, the racial persecutions in the colonies and across the Italian peninsula, the Spanish Civil War, the aggressive military campaigns of the Axis War, the Holocaust, the Allied and German occupations during World War II, the Civil War, and the Resistance. To assess the varied and often contradictory efforts that Italian culture continues to make, to understand, narrate, and remember Fascism, it is necessary to adopt a truly interdisciplinary approach, weaving together the perspectives about the Fascist past that have developed across media and the arts since the end of World War II. To further enrich the understanding of how the Italian Republic has established a relationship with its dictatorial past, it is fundamental to expand the horizons of enquiry beyond the perimeter of historical research and embrace an in-depth study of cultural production. Together with the close reading of specific artworks, several contributors have prioritised the study of critical reception, which constitutes a particularly valuable tool to reflect on how artistic representations of Fascism have affected the public discourse. [...]across the volume, a number of topics recur, such as the condemnation of Fascism through anti-Fascist cultural practices, the reflection-or the lack thereof-on the idea of responsibility for the past, the articulation of the myth of italiani brava gente and its deconstruction through processes of implication, the long-lasting impact of the interpretations of Fascism developed by the political and historiographical discourses, and the identification of areas of resistance to remembering as well as critical perspectives about the Fascist past that fostered the development of Italy's democratic culture.

The article begins by looking at the body of written and visual material that was produced on the colonial world in the interwar years. It considers various reading strategies that can be applied to this body of work and how it can be addressed through post-colonial criticism. The article argues that the work of the sociologist Peter Berger offers a series of insights into the way in which this material represents the social world, and the notions of collective identity and alterity that are central to that world. In the light of Berger's thinking on the socially constructed nomos, the essay examines some of the definitions of the relation between metropolitan and subject communities that recur in writings on the reality of colonialism. The essay explores the relationship of an individual author to the nomos of his or her time by looking in detail at one text: the journalist Ciro Poggiali's diary of the time he spent in Ethiopia in the immediate aftermath of the Italian conquest of the country. It examines how Poggiali's diary can be interpreted as a complex account of how the coerciveness of the social world is experienced by individual consciousness and how its definitions of racial and cultural belonging can be appropriated or challenged. The essay concludes by arguing that the analysis of strategies for defining identity and otherness within the Italian colonial context can be taken further by working within a comparative framework. L'articolo inizia considerando il corpus del materiale scritto e iconografico prodotto sul mondo coloniale negli anni tra le due guerre. Il lavoro prende in considerazione varie strategie di letture che possono essere applicate a questo insieme di materiale e come possa essere affrontato attraverso la critica post-coloniale. Si deduce che il lavoro del sociologo Peter Berger offre una serie di prospettive sul modo in cui tale materiale possa rappresentare il mondo sociale, e le nozioni dell'identità collettiva e dell'alterità che sono centrali a quel mondo. Alla luce del pensiero di Berger sul nomos socialmente costruito, il saggio esamina alcune delle definizioni della relazione tra la comunità italiana e quella indigena che ricorrono negli scritti sulla realtà del colonialismo. Il saggio esplora la relazione di un autore individuale con il nomos del suo tempo, guardando in particolare un testo: il diario del giornalista Ciro Poggiali scritto nel periodo passato in Etiopia immediatamente dopo la conquista italiana del paese. Il saggio esamina come il diario di Poggiali può essere interpretato come un complesso resoconto di come la coercizione del mondo sociale è vissuta dalla coscienza individuale e come le sue definizioni di appartenenza razziale e culturale possano essere appropriate o respinte come una sfida. Il saggio conclude deducendo che l'analisi delle strategie per definire l'identità e la diversità all'interno del contesto coloniale italiano possa essere ulteriormente sviluppata, seguendo un approccio comparativo.

During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experiences of writers as well as changing political, social, and cultural factors. This volume examines changing ways of remembering the war in the literatures of France, Germany, and Italy; changes in the subject of memory, and in the relations between fiction, autobiography, and documentary, with the focus being on the extent to which shared European memories of the war have been constructed.