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Italian ColonialismPioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa

Italian Colonialism: Pioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa [This chapter attempts a redefinition of models of female subjectivity under fascism through an investigation of autobiographical and fictional works written in the 1930s by Italian women who traveled to colonial Africa. It is divided in three parts, dedicated to Anna Messina’s Cronache del Nilo (Nile Chronicles) (1940), Augusta Perricone-Violà’s Donne e non bambole (Women, Not Dolls) (1930), and Alba Felter Sartori’s Vagabondaggi, soste, avventure negli albori dell’impero (Wanderings, Halts, and Adventures at the Dawning of the Empire) (1940), respectively. The texts I include in my analysis significantly challenge critical readings of both male-authored colonial writings and female subjectivity under the regime by complicating critical paradigms of fascist metropolitan models of femininity. I claim that fascist colonial writings by Italian women display a model of European female subjectivity that is racially and class specific. Moreover, these texts enlist and are complicit with different dominant colonial discourses, such as the cultural and technological superiority of Western modernity and a belated form of Orientalism, peculiar to Italy’s belated colonial enterprise.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismPioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Lombardi-Diop, Cristina
Italian Colonialism — Feb 16, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
ISBN
978-0-230-60636-4
Pages
145 –154
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_13
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Abstract

[This chapter attempts a redefinition of models of female subjectivity under fascism through an investigation of autobiographical and fictional works written in the 1930s by Italian women who traveled to colonial Africa. It is divided in three parts, dedicated to Anna Messina’s Cronache del Nilo (Nile Chronicles) (1940), Augusta Perricone-Violà’s Donne e non bambole (Women, Not Dolls) (1930), and Alba Felter Sartori’s Vagabondaggi, soste, avventure negli albori dell’impero (Wanderings, Halts, and Adventures at the Dawning of the Empire) (1940), respectively. The texts I include in my analysis significantly challenge critical readings of both male-authored colonial writings and female subjectivity under the regime by complicating critical paradigms of fascist metropolitan models of femininity. I claim that fascist colonial writings by Italian women display a model of European female subjectivity that is racially and class specific. Moreover, these texts enlist and are complicit with different dominant colonial discourses, such as the cultural and technological superiority of Western modernity and a belated form of Orientalism, peculiar to Italy’s belated colonial enterprise.1]

Published: Feb 16, 2016

Keywords: Italian Woman; Colonial Culture; African Coloni; Colonial Pioneer; Female Subjectivity

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