Ricerc@Sapienza

In Italy, over the last decades, both the Left and the Right have repeatedly employed American Indians as political icons. The Left and the Right, that is, both adopted and adapted certain real or often outright invented features of American Indian culture and history to promote their own ideas, values, and political campaigns. The essay explores how well-established stereotypes such as those of the ecological Indian, the Indian as victim, and the Indian as fearless warrior, have often surfaced in Italian political discourse.

The ‘friend–enemy’ relation represented an essential ideological mainstay
of the thought and action of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in the years of
republican Italy. This relation goes back to the aftermath of World War I when
Soviet communism became established as a global revolutionary movement.
The PCI’s strategy of delegitimation of political opponents underwent substantial
changes over the years of republican Italy. The long period spanning Togliatti and
Berlinguer’s leadership of the party saw a change in political culture destined

Bas-reliefs are undoubtedly an important source for the reconstruction and evaluation of the Neo-Assyrian culture, including art-historical perspectives, political considerations, and all kinds of indirect information that can be gathered from the images in Assyrian palaces and open air spaces.

From the 9th to the 7th century BC, Assyrian kings launched a programme of visualization of their military deeds and achievements on wall panels in the rooms of the royal residences in the main capital cities of the empire, Nimrud, Dur Sharrukin and Nineveh.

This chapter aims to analyse the relationship between fashion and literary studies in the context of English cultural history. By tracing the conflation of the notion of ideology into models of hegemony and discoursive practices, it will highlight the conceptual basis for a proper understanding of the cultural approach in the study of literary objects and fashion phenomena.