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Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi’s deliberate use of rituals, symbols, and the colonial past to shape national identity in Libya. The argument is sustained by case studies ranging among film, documentary, literature and art, shedding new light on how memory has been treated in the two postcolonial societies examined. The last part briefly analyses the identity transformation process in the new Libya.

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Contents: Postcolonial Memory – Italy – Libya – Italian studies – Libyan studies – Myth – Symbolism – Identity – Gaddafi – Omar Mukhtar – The Green Book – Censorship – Political studies – Cultural studies – Italiani brava gente – Tobino – Monicelli – Fagih – Wak Wak – History – Media – International relations – Lion of the Desert.

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 11/06/2015
      ISBN13: 9783631661253, 978-3631661253
      ISBN10: 3631661258

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi’s deliberate use of rituals, symbols, and the colonial past to shape national identity in Libya. The argument is sustained by case studies ranging among film, documentary, literature and art, shedding new light on how memory has been treated in the two postcolonial societies examined. The last part briefly analyses the identity transformation process in the new Libya.

      Table of Contents
      Contents: Postcolonial Memory – Italy – Libya – Italian studies – Libyan studies – Myth – Symbolism – Identity – Gaddafi – Omar Mukhtar – The Green Book – Censorship – Political studies – Cultural studies – Italiani brava gente – Tobino – Monicelli – Fagih – Wak Wak – History – Media – International relations – Lion of the Desert.

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