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.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: vital subjects
  • 1. Colonial (re)productivity
  • 2. Immunitary technologies
  • 3. Mutilated limbs
  • 4. Biopolitics and colonial drive
  • Epilogue.