The distance to China : Twentieth-Century Italian travel narratives of patriotism, commitment and disillusion (1898-1985) / Linetto Basilone

• Autore: Basilone Linetto
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Peter Lang, 2022; ©2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 pages)
• Disciplina: 850.9/3251
• Soggetto topico: Travelers' writings, Italian - China - History and criticism; Italian prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Politics in literature
• Soggetto geografico: China Description and travel; China In literature; Italy Foreign relations China; China Foreign relations Italy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Literary criticism
• Sommario/riassunto: "Over the course of the twentieth century, China became the destination of choice for hundreds of the most prominent Italian writers, journalists, and politicians. Symbolic of the cultural, economic, and political relationship between Italy and China since the late 1890s, the travel narratives of these authors contributed to the creation of multiple and varied representations of the country. This book fills a gap in the study of the development of Italian travel narratives on twentieth-century China. It classifies the major portraits of China under five chronologically and ideologically ordered typologies of representation and offers readers a structured understanding of the processes of "writing" China in Italy. The study sheds new light on how China was associated with the specific cultural, political, and social traits of Italy and Italian culture; how it reinforced ideological indoctrination among Italian intellectual elites; and how significant such travel narratives were for the ideological orientation of the Italian readership. The authors discussed in this book include, among others, Luigi Barzini Sr., Mario Appellius, Arnaldo Cipolla, Franco Fortini, Carlo Cassola, Curzio Malaparte, Alberto Moravia, Goffredo Parise, Maria Antonietta Macciocchi, Gianni Rodari, Luigi Malerba, Alberto Arbasino, Edoarda Masi, and Tiziano Terzani"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Distance to China
• ISBN: 1-78997-512-3; 1-78997-511-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910776163503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Italian Modernities