The essay, based on unpublished documents, analyzes the cultural trajectories of fascism in provincial areas within the context of the "laboratory" that emerged along Italy's strategic eastern border. In this setting, national cultural policies were compelled to engage with and, at times, confront local identities and regional concepts of history and citizenship. This dynamic creates a broader framework linking fascist policies to those implemented by the post-unification Italian governments. The article examines case studies over an extended period, focusing on places where citizenship was actively exercised. At the same time, as demonstrated throughout the essay, fascist cultural policy, despite its efforts to appropriate the historical identity of these regions, had to contend with a non-univocal but pluralistic approach to identity. This pluralism was deeply intertwined with the complex debates that shaped the notions of “trans-regional” and, later, “national” identity.
Il saggio attraverso documenti inediti analizza i percorsi culturali del fascismo in provincia nel contesto di quello che fu “laboratorio” lungo il confine strategico dell’Italia orientale in cui la politica culturale nazionale dovette dialogare e confrontarsi, a volte anche aspramente, con le identità locali e con i concetti di storia e di cittadinanza regionali: questo dato lega in un quadro d’insieme la politica fascista con quella attuata dai governi dell’Italia post-unitaria. L’articolo ha esaminato dei casi di studio nel lungo periodo, in quanto furono luoghi in cui si esercitò la cittadinanza in modo attivo. Al contempo, come è dimostrato nel corso del saggio, la politica culturale fascista, pur cercando di appropriarsi dell’identità storica in queste aree, dovette scontarsi con un approccio identitario non univoco ma plurale, che si coniugava con la complesso dibattito con cui si era costituito il concetto di identità “trans-regionale” e poi “nazionale”.
Fascismo, historiografía e identidades transregionales: el caso de las Tre Venezie
Margherita Angelini
2020-01-01
Abstract
The essay, based on unpublished documents, analyzes the cultural trajectories of fascism in provincial areas within the context of the "laboratory" that emerged along Italy's strategic eastern border. In this setting, national cultural policies were compelled to engage with and, at times, confront local identities and regional concepts of history and citizenship. This dynamic creates a broader framework linking fascist policies to those implemented by the post-unification Italian governments. The article examines case studies over an extended period, focusing on places where citizenship was actively exercised. At the same time, as demonstrated throughout the essay, fascist cultural policy, despite its efforts to appropriate the historical identity of these regions, had to contend with a non-univocal but pluralistic approach to identity. This pluralism was deeply intertwined with the complex debates that shaped the notions of “trans-regional” and, later, “national” identity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.