Affiliation:
1. University of Reading , UK
Abstract
Abstract
The conclusion considers Italy’s changing relations with Africa and the Mediterranean in the last decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of this century. It considers what it means for Italy to have elected a Prime Minister belonging to the heir to Mussolini’s Fascist party, on the eve of the centenary of the March on Rome. The conclusion then focuses in particular on the ways in which the memory of the Roman Empire in Africa is selectively employed in the discourse surrounding the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in the Mediterranean, and how this is underpinned by a more general colonial aphasia—the unsaid, rather than unremembered, of Italian colonial history.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
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