But we built roads for them: the lies, racism, and amnesia that bury Italy's colonial past
"In the fiery political debates in and about Italy, silence reigns about the country's colonial legacy. Reducing European colonial history to Britain and France has effectively concealed an enduring phenomenon in Italian history that lasted for 80 years (1882 to 1960). It also blots out th...
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| Summary: | "In the fiery political debates in and about Italy, silence reigns about the country's colonial legacy. Reducing European colonial history to Britain and France has effectively concealed an enduring phenomenon in Italian history that lasted for 80 years (1882 to 1960). It also blots out the history of the countries it colonized in Northeastern Africa. Francesco Filippi challenges the myth of Italians being "nice people" or "good" colonialists who simply built roads for Africans. Despite extensive historiography, the collective awareness of the nations conquered and the violence inflicted on them remains superficial, be it in Italy or internationally. He retraces Italy's colonial history, focusing on how propaganda, literature and popular culture have warped our understanding of the past and thereby hampered our ability to deal with the present." |
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CONTENTS FOREWORD Filippi’s Template for Canada and Other Countries i INTRODUCTION 5 Some Parts Went Missing CHAPTER! 13 13 13 15 17 Departures Unplanned Birth of an Imperial Power Premise: Why Colonies? A Bad Start A Matter of Prestige How Do I Sell You Occupation? I: I Am “Bringing Civilization” How Do I Sell You Occupation? II: “I Offer You a Great Banquet” From Assab to Massawa, from Massawa to Asmara: The “First Colony” Is Born 19 22 24 CHAPTER 2 Arrivals Colonial Failures—A New Lie for Every Conquest 27 27 From “Prosperous Eritrea” to Abyssinia, to the (Failed) Conquest of a Country of Savages “Virgin and Fertile,” the First Colony for People Somalia: Terra Incognita To China, to Carry the White Man’s Burden “Tripoli, the Fourth Shore” 28 32 35 39 45
“The White Man Has a Right to the African Paradise” Pacify at Any Cost The Dodecanese, a Strange “White” Colony “Abyssinia: The Fascist Empire” 49 53 58 62 CHAPTERS Contacts Prejudices from Overseas The Rush to Conquer Why Are We Here? I: We Are Occupying “Nobody’s Land” (Terra nullius) Why Are We Here? II: “We Are Modernity Against the Middle Ages” Repeating the Stereotype to Reinforce Prejudice The Beastliness of the Colonized in Two Symbols: “Nose Ring” and “Alarm Clock Around the Neck” Shapeless Masses with No History. Somalis, Libyans, Abyssinians: One Face, One Race, Inferior “Beautiful Land of Love”: The Erotic Imagery of the Colony 69 69 70 71 76 79 83 88 97 CHAPTER 4 Returns Colonial Memory and Colonial Oblivion “Witnesses” from Overseas: Too Many Soldiers, Too Few Colonists, All of Them Revenants The Great Silence Processing the Loss It’s All Mussolini’s Fault Hot-Blooded Readings: We Were Better than the British The “Official Story” “It Was Different in Africa” The Myth of Goodness Requires Proof: The Roads Relations with Former Subjects 107 107 108 113 115 119 121 124 126 127 131 CHAPTERS Regurgitations What’s Left? A Century Is Hard to Erase Words, Words, Words: Ambaradan, Tucùl, Menelik’s Tongue 135 135 136 136
The Other, After the Colony: Portraits in Black and White Two Types of Blackness This Film Must Not Be Shown, Not Tomorrow, Not Ever! Restore Hope, Return to Mogadishu: Savages and a New, Horrifying “Beautiful Land of Love” Spoils of War: The Obelisk at Axum 139 142 148 Conclusion 161 Acknowledgements 167 Chronology 169 Translator’s Note 175 Notes 177 150 156 |
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