Through East Asia to the sound of ‘Giovinezza’: Italian travel literature on China, Korea and Japan during the Fascist ventennio

Modern Italy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linetto Basilone
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Race And Culture ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Dominant Representation

During the Fascist ventennio, prominent Italian writers and journalists, such as Mario Appelius, Raffaele Calzini, Arnaldo Cipolla, Arnaldo Fraccaroli, Roberto Suster and Cesco Tommaselli, reported from China, Japan and Korea for Il Popolo d'Italia, Corriere della Sera and La Stampa. Their travel narratives were crucial for the creation and diffusion in Italy of the dominant representation of China and Korea as remote, decadent and exotic societies; and of Japan as a progressive society resonant with Fascist Italy. The narrativisation of these countries in Italian travelogues from the Fascist ventennio was part of a widespread discursive practice by Italian intellectuals willing to subscribe to, and actively disseminate, the guiding principles of Fascism. When emphasising China's and Korea's irreconcilable difference from, and Japan's affinity with, Fascist Italy, these intellectuals extolled the Italian race and culture, justified Italy's position in geopolitical dynamics, and propagandised the exceptionality of the Fascist ideology.

Il turista, il Baedeker e il viaggiatore. Il viaggio e i viaggiatori secondo Abel Salazar

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-189
Author(s):  
Carla Marisa da Silva Valente
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Travel Narratives

Abel Salazar presents the considerations of a traveler-storyteller about some Italian cities in his book of travel narratives, Uma Primavera em Itália (2003), the central corpus of our research. Starting from an introduction about the author, the text, the perspectives of travel literature in the first half of the twentieth century, its categorization and reflecting on the tourist and traveler profile, we intend, with this research, to present a critical analysis of the interpretation of the figure of the traveler and its facets by the eclectic Portuguese author Abel Salazar, praised and criticized in his travel narratives.

The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America

Notes ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Mark Tucker ◽  
Burton W. Peretti ◽  
William Howland Kenney
Keyword(s):  
Urban America ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Race And Culture

Travel Literature and the Early Novel

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Wall
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Grand Tour ◽  
Country House ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Early Novel

Travel literature emerges in letters, diaries, journals, biographies, travel narratives, country house guides, ship’s logs, poems, plays—and the novel feeds on them all. From London as a source of topographical mystery to be penetrated even by its inhabitants, to the newly tourable country estates; from the recently domesticated wilds of Scotland and Ireland, to the paths of the Grand Tour in Europe; and from the exotic lands across the seas to life on the sea itself, the rhetorics of travel supplied hosts of models for narrative and imagery in the early novel. The novel every bit as much as travel-writing is an exercise in ethnographic observation, sharing an interest in closely observed and analysed detail, in the similarities and differences of other cultures, in the remarkableness of the ordinary and the sometimes surprising familiarity of the unknown, and with journey at the centre of both.

The Diffusion Route and Chronology of Korean Plant Domestication

1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong-pil Choe
Keyword(s):  
Oryza Sativa ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South China ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Food Production ◽  
North China ◽  
Plant Domestication ◽  
Sorghum Vulgare ◽  
North And South ◽  
And Diffusion

Problems concerning the emergence and geographical diffusion of food production in East Asia have long interested archaeologists and historians. However, attempts to reconstruct the chronology and diffusion routes from the so-called nuclear zones of both North and South China through the Korean peninsula and Japan have been less than convincing. In North China, the crops involved were millet (Setaria italica) and kaoliang (Sorghum vulgare); in South China, rice (Oryza sativa japonica and indica).

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