The Un-‘Common Sense’ of National Identity: Luigi Molina, Trentini and the Fascist Italianisation Campaign in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
| العنوان: | The Un-‘Common Sense’ of National Identity: Luigi Molina, Trentini and the Fascist Italianisation Campaign in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol |
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| المؤلفون: | Eden K. McLean |
| المصدر: | Contemporary European History. :1-21 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | History |
| الوصف: | This article employs the recently discovered memoir of Luigi Molina – the superintendent of schools in Italy's multilingual borderland of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol from 1923 to 1944 – to demonstrate the sizeable and problematic rift between purportedly ‘common-sense’ understandings of ‘Italian-ness’ (italianità) as they were manifested in Italy's newly annexed Alpine territory and in Rome. In particular, the author focuses on the state's treatment of the region's Italian speakers (trentini) in its attempts to ‘Italianise’ their German-speaking neighbours and solidify fascist control of Italy's northern border. Ultimately, Molina's recollections recount how Rome's struggles to articulate and implement clear and consistent criteria for Italianisation led to the weakening of regional officials’ moral authority, political support and ‘totalitarian’ façade. The simultaneously vague and critical project of Italianisation did not simply illuminate fascism's inability to inculcate an ‘Italian identity’ among Tyroleans, however; it also served to highlight fundamental difficulties in defining national identities in any nation-state. |
| تدمد: | 1469-2171 0960-7773 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::969fe188d0709024151bd398c267f124 https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777323000139 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........969fe188d0709024151bd398c267f124 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14692171 09607773 |
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