LEADER 03704nam 2200445 450 001 9910725073903321 005 20230605052308.0 010 $a1-943208-55-7 035 $a(CKB)5700000000350230 035 $a(NjHacI)995700000000350230 035 $a(OCoLC)1377017022 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_112272 035 $a(EXLCZ)995700000000350230 100 $a20230703d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aItaly to Argentina $etravel writing and emigrant colonialism /$fTullio Pagano 210 1$aAmherst, Massachusetts :$cAmherst College Press,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (219 pages) 311 $a1-943208-54-9 327 $aIntroduction : From Genoa to Le Havre with a pot of chestnuts -- 1. Free to leave : a liberal economist looks at emigration -- 2. The anthropologist as entrepreneur : Paolo Mantegazza's real and imaginary journeys to South America -- 3. American tears : Edmondo De Amicis and the remaking of Italians in Argentina -- 4. From free emigration to imperialism: the debunking of the Argentine myth -- 5. The whole world is our homeland: Italian transnational anarchism in Argentina -- 6. In the shadow of "Great Men": Gina Lombroso's travels to South America. 330 3 $a"In Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism, Tullio Pagano examines Italian emigration to Argentina and the Rio de la Plata region through the writings of Italian economists, poets, anthropologists, and political activists from the 1860s to the beginning of World War I. He shows that Italians played an important role in the so-called conquest of the desert, which led to Argentina's economic expansion and the suppression and killing of the remaining indigenous population. Many of the texts he discusses have hardly been studied before: from Paolo Mantegazza?s real and imaginary travel narratives at the time of Italian unification to Gina Lombroso?s descriptions of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina in early 1900s. Pagano questions the apparent opposition between diaspora and empire and argues that there was a continuity between the ?peaceful conquest? through spontaneous emigration envisioned by Italian liberal intellectuals at the turn of the century and the military colonialism of Italian Nationalists and Fascists. He shows that racist assumptions about Native American and ?creole? cultures were present in the work of progressive authors like Edmondo de Amicis, whose writings became enormously popular in Argentina, and anarchist militants and legal scholars like Pietro Gori, who founded the first revolutionary unions in Buenos Aires while remaining dangerously attached to Cesare Lombroso?s theories of atavism and primitivism. The ?growl? of Italian emigrants about to land in Argentina, found in Dino Campana?s poem Buenos Aires (1907), echoes throughout Pagano?s book, and encourages the reader to explore the apparent oxymoron of ?emigration colonialism? and the role of literature and public media in the formation of our social imaginary."--$cProvided by publisher. 517 $aItaly to Argentina 606 $aTravelers' writings, Italian$zArgentina 606 $aItalians$zArgentina$xHistory 607 $aArgentina$xDescription and travel 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, Italian 615 0$aItalians$xHistory. 676 $a982.00451 700 $aPagano$b Tullio$01211530 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910725073903321 996 $aItaly to Argentina$93394782 997 $aUNINA