| Mussolini's National Project in Argentina Contributor(s): Aliano, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611475767 ISBN-13: 9781611475760 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $105.93 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - History | Europe - Italy - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 982.061 |
| LCCN: 2012022836 |
| Series: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1920's - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the 1920s and 1930s, Mussolini's fascist regime attempted to promote fascist Italy's national project in Argentina, bombarding the republic with its propaganda. Although politically a failure, this propaganda provoked a debate over the idea of a national identity outside the nation-state and the potential roles that citizens living abroad could play in their country of origin. In propagating an Italian national identity within another sovereign state, Mussolini's initiative also inspired heated debate among native Argentines over their own national project as a nation of immigrants. Using the experiences of Mussolini's efforts in Argentina as its case study, this book demonstrates how national projects take on different meanings once they enter a contested public space. It details how both members of the Italian community as well as native Argentines reshaped Italy's national discourse from abroad by entangling it with Argentina's own national project. In exploring the way in which nations are imagined, constructed, and recast both from above as well as from below, Mussolini's National Project in Argentina offers new perspectives on the politics of identity formation while providing a transatlantic example of the dynamic interplay between the Italian state and its emigrant communities. It is in short, a transnational perspective on what it means to belong to a nation. |