Identity in transatlantic play: Il Duce's national project in Argentina.
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Title
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Identity in transatlantic play: Il Duce's national project in Argentina.
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Identifier
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AAI3310587
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identifier
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3310587
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Creator
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Aliano, David.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Marta Petrusewicz
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Date
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2008
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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History, Modern | History, European | History, Latin American
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Abstract
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This project examines fascist Italy's propaganda and its impact on notions of identity in Argentina. During the 1920s and 1930s the fascist regime went to great lengths to penetrate the Italian community in Argentina and aggressively propagandize its interests and ideology. Fundamental to their work was exporting a fascist version of Italian identity that strove to incorporate its emigrants back into Italy's national project. This propaganda provoked lively debates over nationhood and identity from divergent groups within Argentina. Fascist and anti-fascists within the Italian community, as well as, Argentine nationalists and ultimately members of the government all weighed-in. Whether supporting and reinterpreting its content, or challenging and discrediting it, each of these groups revealed their own visions, assumptions, preoccupations and tensions about nationhood, nationality and identity. It is insights from this debate from which this dissertation draws its conclusions on how national identities are negotiated and defined. Touching upon a number of fields, this work adds to the debate over Italian identity and fascist culture within Italy, but as well as contribute to our understanding of immigration and identity formation in Latin America.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
