TY  - GEN
A1  - Scianna, Bastian Matteo
T1  - Forging an Italian hero?
BT  - the late commemoration of Amedeo Guillet (1909–2010)
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - Over the last two decades, Amedeo Guillet (1909–2010) has been turned into a public and military hero. His exploits as a guerrilla leader in Italian East Africa in 1941 have been exaggerated to forge a narrative of an honourable resistance against overwhelming odds. Thereby, Guillet has been showcased as a romanticized colonial explorer who was an apolitical and timeless Italian officer. He has been compared to Lawrence of Arabia in order to raise his international visibility, while his genuine Italian brand is perpetuated domestically. By elevating him to an official role model, the Italian Army has gained a focal point for military heroism that was also acceptable in the public memory as the embodiment of a ‘glorious’ defeat narrative.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 152 
KW  - Italy
KW  - Second World War
KW  - Amedeo Guillet
KW  - colonialism
KW  - Italian East Africa
KW  - collective memory
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-416866
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 152
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Adair, Gigi
T1  - The “Feringhi Hakīm”: medical encounters and colonial ambivalence in Isabella Bird’s travels in Japan and Persia
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - This article considers Isabella Bird’s representation of medicine in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880) and Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), the two books in which she engages most extensively with both local (Chinese/Islamic) and Western medical science and practice. I explore how Bird uses medicine to assert her narrative authority and define her travelling persona in opposition to local medical practitioners. I argue that her ambivalence and the unease she frequently expresses concerning medical practice (expressed particularly in her later adoption of the Persian appellation “Feringhi Hakīm” [European physician] to describe her work) serves as a means for her to negotiate the colonial and gendered pressures on Victorian medicine. While in Japan this attitude works to destabilise her hierarchical understanding of science and results in some acknowledgement of traditional Japanese traditions, in Persia it functions more to disguise her increasing collusion with overt British colonial ambitions.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 120 
KW  - Isabella Bird
KW  - medicine
KW  - travel
KW  - gender
KW  - colonialism
KW  - missionaries
KW  - Japan
KW  - Persia
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395316
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 120
ER  -