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National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances-ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to 'cultural performances' such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media-that cultural identity a

Preliminary Material -- Performing National Identity /Manfred Pfister -- 'Stripping up his sleeves like some juggler': Giordano Bruno in England, or, The Philosopher as Stylistic Mountebank /Werner von Koppenfels -- 'Mine Italian brain 'gan in your duller Britain operate most vilely': Cymbeline and the Deconstruction of Anglo-Italian Differences /Ralf Hertel -- Inigo Jones and the Reform of Italian Art /John Peacock -- 'Made in Italy': Sculpture and the Staging of National Identities at the International Exhibition of 1862 /Alison Yarrington -- Italianised Byron—Byronised Italy /Barbara Schaff -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Italian Poetry: Constructing National Identity and Shaping the Poetic Self /Fabienne Moine -- The 'Bella Italiana' and the 'English Rose': Reflections on Two National Typologies of Feminine Beauty /Stephen Gundle -- Sex, Lies, and Celluloid: That Hamilton Woman and British Attitudes towards the Italians from the Risorgimento to the Second World War /Pamela Neville-Sington -- Italian Culture versus British Pragmatics: The Maltese Scenario /Peter Vassallo -- Gramsci's Notion of the 'Popular' in Italy and Britain: A Tale of Two Cultures /David Forgacs -- Personal Memory / Cultural Memory: Identity and Difference in Scottish-Italian Migrant Theatre /Carla Dente -- The Theatre of the World: British-Italian Identities on the Tourism Stage /Claudio Visentin -- Bias and Stereotypes in the Media: The Performance of British and Italian National Identities /Judith Munat -- Re-locating Shakespeare: Cultural Negotiations in Italian Dubbed Versions of Romeo and Juliet /Sara Soncini -- Something to Declare: Italian Avengers and British Culture in La ragazza con la pistola and Appuntamento a Liverpool /Mariangela Tempera -- English Fans and Italian Football: Towards a Transnational Relationship /Anthony King -- Selling England (and Italy) by the Pound: Performing National Identity in the First Phase of Progressive Rock: Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and PFM /Greg Walker -- Zuppa Inglese and Eating Up Italy: Intercultural Feasts and Fantasies /Gisela Ecker -- Notes on Contributors.

"Language is now understood as a key component of cultural identity, but discourses on linguistic nationalism are only a few centuries old. In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the connection between Italian language and national identity over four hundred years, from late-Renaissance linguistic theories to nineteenth-century nationalist myths

1. Italian intellectuals and the 'death of the homeland' : antagonistic identities in Italy since 1945 -- 2. The Catholic Church and the debate on identity and immigration -- 3. The Northern League and the debate on identity and immigration -- 4. The Italian legislation on immigration -- 5. Recent debates on identity and otherness : everything needs to change, so that everything stays the same? -- 6. Conclusion.

This book investigates Italian foreign cultural policy from the 1947 Constitution to the present. How has Italy conveyed its language and culture to the outside world? Where does the Italian experience fit into a wider international context? Finally, what can be learned from the answers to such questions in relation to the Italian experience in Australia?

Paradigms of postcoloniality in contemporary Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo -- The Italian postcolonial / Robert J.C. Young -- Part 1. European and global trajectories -- The new European migratory regime and the shifting patterns of contemporary racism / Sandro Mezzadra -- The postcolonial turn in Italian studies : European perspectives / Sandra Ponzanesi -- The emigrant post-"colonia" in contemporary immigrant Italy / Teresa Fiore -- De-provincializing Italy : notes on race, racialization, and Italy's coloniality / Miguel Mellino -- Part II. Shared memories, contested proximities -- Hidden faces, hidden histories : contrasting voices of postcolonial Italy / Alessandro Triulzi -- Shooting the colonial past in contemporary Italian cinema : effects of deferral in Good morning Aman / Derek Duncan -- Italians DOC : posing and passing from Giovanni Finati to Amara Lakhous / Barbara Spackman -- Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea : subalternity, grace, nostalgia, and the "rediscovery" of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa / Giovanna Trento -- Southerners, migrants, colonized : a postcolonial perspective on Carlo Levi's Cristo si è fermato a Eboli and southern Italy today / Roberto Derobertis --

"This book narrates the first national celebration of united Italy, the Sixth Centenary of Dante Alighieri in May 1865. Denominated alternatively as a national, European, and secular festa, the affair materialized as an eclectic Italian monument with extraordinary political, social and cultural significance. The Centenary was a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian identity emerged, one based on a Florentine cultural nationalism that opposed the Savoyard territorial nationalism. An stunningly popular event celebrated throughout Italian civil society, the festa was conceived, organized, and strategically promoted from a municipal center, the city of Florence. Its Florentine organizers successfully wrote the story of the Centenary as a parable of the Florentine son, Dante, who fathered the Italian nation as well as king Victor Emmanuel himself"--