Rereading Travellers to the East

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Rereading Travellers to the East is written by Beatrice Falcucci and published by Firenze University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8855185780 (ISBN 10) and 9788855185783 (ISBN 13).

Rereading Travellers to the East aim to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in the political, economic, cultural and intellectual life of post-unification Italy. The authors highlight how this literature has been reinterpreted and reused for political and ideological purposes in the context of the formation and reformation of collective identities, from the Risorgimento to the Fascist regime and the early republic. By showing the potential of the notion of rereading, the volume outlines a history of the political and cultural legacy of travel literature which goes well beyond Italy.