Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965
An Allegorical Reading
Erica Bellia
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ISBN: 978-1-839544-06-4 (hardback) • RRP £95, $120, €120 ISBN: 978-1-839544-07-1 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-839544-08-8 (JSTOR ebook) Milan, late 1960s. Some graffiti appears on the walls of the industrial suburbs of Sesto San Giovanni, screaming ‘Vietnam is in the factory’ — a powerful allusion to the allegorical connections between industrial and colonial conflicts. What did industrial and colonial discourses have in common? How did anticolonial and working-class cultures intersect in the Italy of the ‘economic miracle’? Why did Italy prove to be one of the most active countries in Europe in supporting decolonisation and mediating anticolonial ideas in the 1960s? The book answers these questions by looking at a wide variety of sources, ranging from journals to literature, film, visual and performing arts produced in Italy between the 1950s and 1960s by authors who often worked in industry, wrote about it and saw it from a critical perspective. Erica Bellia is a Gulbenkian Early-Career Research Fellow in Italian Studies at Churchill College, Cambridge. Bibliography entry: Bellia, Erica, Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965: An Allegorical Reading, Italian Perspectives, 66 (Legenda, 2026) First footnote reference: 35 Erica Bellia, Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965: An Allegorical Reading, Italian Perspectives, 66 (Legenda, 2026), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Bellia, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Bellia, Erica. 2026. Narratives of Industry and Decolonisation in Italy 1955-1965: An Allegorical Reading, Italian Perspectives, 66 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Bellia 2026: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Bellia 2026: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Narratives-Industry-Decolonisation-in-Italy-1955-1965 www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ip-66 |
13 May 2026 • 262pp