Vital Subjects : Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920 /

Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the "making" of Italians as modern...

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Main Author: Welch, Rhiannon Noel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
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505 0 |a Introduction: vital subjects -- 1. Colonial (re)productivity -- 2. Immunitary technologies -- 3. Mutilated limbs -- 4. Biopolitics and colonial drive -- Epilogue. 
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