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Italian ColonialismItalians as “Good” Colonizers: Speaking Subalterns and the Politics of Memory in the Dodecanese

Italian Colonialism: Italians as “Good” Colonizers: Speaking Subalterns and the Politics of... [Italian colonialism has had an ambivalent place in Dodecanesian collective memory.1 Almost all local written representations, whether found in history books, commemorative albums, magazines, scholarly journals, newspaper articles or published memoirs, have read the Italian period as a nationalist struggle against unremitting fascist oppression.2 Many ordinary Dodecanesians recall the Italian period in a manner that accords faithfully with this Greek nationalist line, including self-conscious patriots who were ardently (though not necessarily actively) opposed to the colonizer’s presence. Others that somehow came to harm because of Italian rule, such as fishermen and merchants who were denied operating permits so as not to compete with Italian competitors, or peasants displaced by Italian colonization programs, would also find it meaningful to interpolate their experiences within the nationalist schema. Yet Dodecanesians are also likely to claim that “the Italians were good” (I Italì ìtan halì), and that they bequeathed an invaluable legacy to the region. Even those who suffered at Italian hands could nevertheless talk approvingly of colonial administrative practices, development schemes, and about the Italians “as people.” When comparing foreign powers that left their mark on the region, as the islanders often do, the Italians, unlikely as it might seem to outsiders, are deemed to have been “good.”] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismItalians as “Good” Colonizers: Speaking Subalterns and the Politics of Memory in the Dodecanese

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Doumanis, Nicholas
Italian Colonialism — Feb 17, 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
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978-0-230-60636-4
Pages
221 –231
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_20
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Abstract

[Italian colonialism has had an ambivalent place in Dodecanesian collective memory.1 Almost all local written representations, whether found in history books, commemorative albums, magazines, scholarly journals, newspaper articles or published memoirs, have read the Italian period as a nationalist struggle against unremitting fascist oppression.2 Many ordinary Dodecanesians recall the Italian period in a manner that accords faithfully with this Greek nationalist line, including self-conscious patriots who were ardently (though not necessarily actively) opposed to the colonizer’s presence. Others that somehow came to harm because of Italian rule, such as fishermen and merchants who were denied operating permits so as not to compete with Italian competitors, or peasants displaced by Italian colonization programs, would also find it meaningful to interpolate their experiences within the nationalist schema. Yet Dodecanesians are also likely to claim that “the Italians were good” (I Italì ìtan halì), and that they bequeathed an invaluable legacy to the region. Even those who suffered at Italian hands could nevertheless talk approvingly of colonial administrative practices, development schemes, and about the Italians “as people.” When comparing foreign powers that left their mark on the region, as the islanders often do, the Italians, unlikely as it might seem to outsiders, are deemed to have been “good.”]

Published: Feb 17, 2016

Keywords: Colonial Power; Italian Development; Italian Structure; Male Interviewee; Oral Testimony

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