British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers

by Claire Chambers

Book Overview

This book investigates the first national festival of modern Italy, the Sixth Centenary Festival of Dante Alighieri in 1865. The study consists of an historical reconstruction of the event based on the discovery of uncatalogued and unpublished documents left by the organizers. The narrative poses the Centenary as a platform upon which an alternative definition of Italian national identity emerged, one based on a history of Florentine Cultural nationalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230252338
• ISBN13: 9780230252332
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.9"