Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Staging Memory. Myth, Symbolism and Identity in Postcolonial Italy and Libya, is a book written by Stefania Del Monte and published in 2015 by Peter Lang.Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi’s deliberate use of rituals, symbols, and the colonial past to shape national identity in Libya. The argument is sustained by case studies ranging among film, documentary, literature and art, shedding new light on how memory has been treated in the two postcolonial societies examined. The last part briefly analyses the identity transformation process in the new Libya."@en }
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- Staging_Memory abstract "Staging Memory. Myth, Symbolism and Identity in Postcolonial Italy and Libya, is a book written by Stefania Del Monte and published in 2015 by Peter Lang.Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi’s deliberate use of rituals, symbols, and the colonial past to shape national identity in Libya. The argument is sustained by case studies ranging among film, documentary, literature and art, shedding new light on how memory has been treated in the two postcolonial societies examined. The last part briefly analyses the identity transformation process in the new Libya.".