‘A gust of cleansing wind’: Italian archaeology on Rhodes and in Libya in the early years of occupation (1911–1914)
| Autor: | Simona Troilo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 17:45-69 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9583 1354-571X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1354571x.2012.628103 |
| Popis: | The essay explores the way in which a European power deals with its colonial aspirations by legitimizing them, in cultural terms, in part through the specific prospect of safeguarding the historical and artistic heritage. The military occupation of Libya and the Dodecanese islands was in fact accompanied, if not preceded, by a strong ideological tension, aimed at emphasizing the myth of Italy as the cradle of art and civilization. With the issues of civilization and with the idea of European superiority, the professed Italian right of preserving the history of ‘others’ was intertwined, thus rescuing it from the ‘barbarism’ of colonized people. By analyzing mainly sources from archives, in the essay the discourse of ‘civilizing preservation versus destructive barbarism’ is compared with the immediate aftermath of the occupation, that is to say, with that complex network of relationships among individuals, institutions and authorities directly involved in the construction of theadministrative appar... |
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