Journeys Through Fascism

Charles Burdett, Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Bristol, specializes on Italian culture under Fascism. He is the author of Vincenzo Cardarelli and his Contemporaries (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is the editor with Claire Gorrara and Helmut Peitsch of European Memories of the Second World War (Berghahn Books, 1999) and with Derek Duncan, of Cultural Encounters: European Travel Writing of the 1930s (Berghahn Books, 2002).

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Writing on Fascist Culture



Chapter 1. Signs of Roman Rule: Italian Tourists and Travellers in the Eastern Mediterranean

Chapter 2. Fascination and Hostility: Two Ambivalent Accounts of Distant Journeys

Chapter 3. The Other Spaces of Fascist Italy: The Cemetery, the Prison and the Internal Colony

Chapter 4. Narratives of Settlement in Italian East Africa 1936–1941

Chapter 5. Itineraries through Melodrama: Italian Correspondents and the Spanish Civil War

Chapter 6. Representing Rapprochement with Nazi Germany

Chapter 7. Competing Models of Humanity: Perceptions of Russia and the United States on the Eve of the Second World War



Conclusion



Index