General Information

Author/Creator

Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta, 1957-

Language

English.

Published

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.

Physical Description

xi, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 28

Contents/Summary

Summary

This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's elaboration of a new ruling style to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history. Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power's historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime's violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature.

Subjects

Subject

Fascism > Italy.

Fascism and culture > Italy.

Aesthetics, Italian > 20th century.

Italy > Politics and government > 1922-1945.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0520206231

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	320.5/33/0945 FAL		General Stacks	-

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