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    Foreignizing the Imagi-Nation: Giovanni Ruffini’s Contrapuntal Risorgimento

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    Pireddu, Nicoletta
    Abstract
    Giovanni Ruffini, author of the 1855 novel Doctor Antonio, is mainly remembered as the quintessential exiled Risorgimento patriot who, in Mazzini’s footsteps, from London advocated Italy’s freedom and unification. this article presents Ruffini as a more complex contributor to the politics of nation-ness. It highlights how Doctor Antonio engages with a neglected aspect of the Risorgimento, namely, the coexistence of the nation-building project and of a European consciousness as openness to geographical displacement and cultural crossfertilization. Ruffini raises the paradoxical possibility of inhabiting dislocation, projecting emotional attachment upon a plurality of cultural visions rather than upon the monadic paradigm of the nation-state.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/559541
    Date Published
    2013
    Subject
    Ruffini, Giovanni, 1807-1881. Dottor Antonio; Ruffini, Giovanni, 1807-1881--Criticism and interpretation; Ruffini, Giovanni, 1807-1881--Political and social views; Historical fiction, Italian--History and criticism;
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    text
    Publisher
    Canadian Society for Italian Studies
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