Linetto Basilone
The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriotism, Commitment and Disillusion (1898-1985)
The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriotism, Commitment and Disillusion (1898-1985)
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Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to the study of Italy's relationship with China, providing a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers have sought to represent China, its relationship with Italy, and its growing geopolitical significance. The book explores the inter-relation of different positionalities and sheds new light on how China was associated with the specific cultural, political, and social traits of Italy and Italian culture.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 26 December 2022
Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Over the course of the twentieth century,China became a destination of choice for hundreds of the most prominent Italian writers,journalists,and politicians. Informed by the cultural,economic,and political relationship between Italy and China since the late 1890s,the travel narratives of these authors contributed to the creation of multiple and varied representations of the country. This book fills a gap in the study of the development of Italian travel narratives on twentieth-century China. It classifies the major portraits of China under five chronologically and ideologically ordered types of representation and offers readers a structured understanding of the processes of «writing» China in Italy. The study sheds new light on how Italian travel writers and journalists constructed their representations of China,how they negotiated the complex and often conflicting ideologies of Italian Fascism and Italian Communist Party,and how they contributed to the construction of a shared cultural memory of China in Italy. The book will be of interest to scholars of Italian literature,history,and culture,as well as to those interested in the study of transnationalism,cultural exchange,and the representation of China in Western media.
Weight: 489g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789975109
Edition number: New ed
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