Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Fascicolo | 54 | 2020
Articolo | Orienting the Occident

Orienting the Occident

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

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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 28 Maggio 2020 | Accettato: 29 Luglio 2020 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua: en

Keywords Transnational Modernity • Orientalisms • Mexico • Transnational Italy • Post-colonial Theory

Copyright © 2020 Franco Savarino Roggero, Brian Zuccala. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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


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