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Premised on the notion that a national monument is a built theory of the nation, this article explores what a national monument may tell us about the impact that theories of the nation have upon the citizen who is obliged to live by them. The Italian Risorgimento, which means the nation's rebirth from antiquity, is considered as a key example of the theory of the nation. The myth of the nation's rebirth is used to explore patriotism as a manifestation of a maternal symbolic economy. In order to assess the impact of patriotic experience, the article advances a dynamic form of patriotism in which patriotic becoming is defined as the process by which the boy becomes a man through learning to live for the ‘Other’ (the patria) more than for himself. Finally, the Torre Monumentale di San Martino della Battaglia, a key monument in Liberal Italy, is analysed as an architectural ‘motherland’ to which the citizen returns in order to experience the nation's rebirth. |
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