Mussolini's National Project in Argentina

Mussolini's National Project in Argentina

by David Aliano
Mussolini's National Project in Argentina

Mussolini's National Project in Argentina

by David Aliano

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Overview

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 of 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611475777
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date: 08/31/2012
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 220
File size: 455 KB

About the Author

David Aliano is assistant professor of History and Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of Mount Saint Vincent.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1
A National Project outside of the Nation

CHAPTER 2
Fascist Italy Looks Abroad

CHAPTER 3
The ‘New Italy’ in Argentina

CHAPTER 4
An Italian National Identity in Argentina

CHAPTER 5
The Nation Abroad Responds

CHAPTER 6
Italian Identity in Argentina’s National Debate

CONCLUSION

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