LEADER 02603oam 22004332 450 001 9911129194203321 005 20260824082410.2 010 $a9781003702986 024 8 $aCIPO000399093 035 $a(CKB)50508047100041 035 $a(OCoLC)1599579671 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1599579671 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003702986 035 $a(EXLCZ)9950508047100041 100 $a20260529d2026 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRethinking the mother tongue in contemporary Italy $efrom Gramsci to postcolonial literature /$fSaskia Kroonenberg 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2026. 215 $a1 online resource (160 pages) 225 0 $aLanguages and culture in history 311 08$a9789048563913 330 $aTaking Italy's linguistic landscape as an example of how a national language is multiple in and of itself, Rethinking the Mother Tongue in Contemporary Italy: From Gramsci to Postcolonial Literature offers an innovative postcolonial, non-monolingual approach to the notion of the mother tongue.After Italy's unification in 1861, the government tried to linguistically turn the culturally varying inhabitants into one people, seemingly trying to create a national mother tongue. However, it was only in the twentieth century, when mass media entered the family sphere, that Italians started to speak Italian as a mother tongue. Departing from the understanding that the notion of the mother tongue caught in monolingual thinking, the book analyses its relation to gender, race and its territorial colonial expansion. At present, according to the ius sanguinis (law of blood) Italianness is still based on blood, not on mother tongue.By combining Gramsci's notion of immanent grammar, contemporary Italian postcolonial literature, and new materialism, this book offers an innovative postcolonial and new materialist analysis of the notion of the mother tongue. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of intellectual history, Italian studies, postcolonial theory and postcolonial and comparative literature as well as transnational humanities. 606 $aLanguage and culture$zItaly 606 $aLanguage planning$zItaly 606 $aLanguage policy$zItaly 615 0$aLanguage and culture 615 0$aLanguage planning 615 0$aLanguage policy 676 $a306.44945 700 $aKroonenberg$b Saskia 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911129194203321 997 $aUNINA