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dc.identifier	ECF_article_3767
dc.title	Orienting the Occident. Italian Travel and Migrant Writing in Mexico (1890-1932)
dc.contributor.author	Savarino Roggero Franco
dc.contributor.author	Zuccala Brian
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2020/54/orienting-the-occident/
dc.description.abstract	This article addresses a comparatively neglected corpus of Italian travel and migrant writing in Mexico, ranging from Luigi Bruni’s Attraverso il Messico (1890) to Emilio Cecchi’s Messico (1932). It does so from the methodological angle of nation-making and through the seemingly counter-intuitive prism of Italian Orientalism(s). This article focuses on two key moments of both Italian and Mexican history: Post-Unification/Porfiriato and Ventennio/Post-Revolution. The discussion revolves around the problematization of the construction of an Otherized subalternity as a way for the emerging elites to discursively develop and circulate their worldview.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 54 \| September 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-22
dc.dateAccepted	2020-07-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-05-28
dc.identifier.issn	2499-2232
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-1562
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2020/54/005
dc.subject	Post-colonial Theory
dc.subject	Transnational Italy
dc.subject	Mexico
dc.subject	Orientalisms
dc.subject	Transnational Modernity

Research Article

Orienting the Occident

Italian Travel and Migrant Writing in Mexico (1890-1932)

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Franco Savarino Roggero Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico City, Mexico

Brian Zuccala University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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This article addresses a comparatively neglected corpus of Italian travel and migrant writing in Mexico, ranging from Luigi Bruni’s Attraverso il Messico (1890) to Emilio Cecchi’s Messico (1932). It does so from the methodological angle of nation-making and through the seemingly counter-intuitive prism of Italian Orientalism(s). This article focuses on two key moments of both Italian and Mexican history: Post-Unification/Porfiriato and Ventennio/Post-Revolution. The discussion revolves around the problematization of the construction of an Otherized subalternity as a way for the emerging elites to discursively develop and circulate their worldview.

Keywords: Post-colonial Theory. Transnational Italy. Mexico. Orientalisms. Transnational Modernity.

Language: en

Submitted: May 28, 2020
Accepted: July 29, 2020
Published: Dec. 22, 2020

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2020/54/005

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