Vital Subjects Race and Biopolitics in Italy

Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an interdisciplinary study of how racial and colonial discourses shaped the "making" of Italians as modern...

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Language:English
Published: Liverpool University Press 2016
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