{"product_id":"italy-to-argentina-tullio-pagano-9781943208548","title":"Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism","description":"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\" though 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eItaly to Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e shows meticulous bibliographic work and is attentive to both fundamental and marginal texts in a double task, on the one hand, of textual analysis, and on the other, of rescuing and recovering a corpus forgotten by critics even when it is highly significant. It is, then, a research work that addresses the Italian emigration to Argentina from an original point of view, linking texts that have not been studied or that have not been sufficiently analyzed.\" --Fernanda Elisa Bravo Herrera, author of \u003ci\u003eHuellas y recorridos de una utopía: La emigración italiana en la Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eFrom Boccadasse\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eLa Boca\u003c\/i\u003e. Tullio Pagano complexifies the relationship between 'diaspora' and 'colonialism' in the context of Italian migration to South America. In six thematic chapters, Pagano explores the thought of authors on and off the canon. Such diverse voices lead the reader to a new approach to the study of emigrant colonialism and creole studies, towards a deeper, more realistic understanding of the 'conquest of the desert' that Italian emigrants wanted to perform in Argentina.\"--Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tullio Pagano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943208549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943208548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amherst College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Tullio Pagano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519671611647,"sku":"9781943208548","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_52ea03bb-1358-4b45-badf-dce43e6d8f43.jpg?v=1778738130","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/italy-to-argentina-tullio-pagano-9781943208548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}