Original scientific paper
Ethnography and Historiography in Fulvia Miani Perotti’s Travel Writings
Patrizia Guida
; Università LUM "Giuseppe Degennaro"; Direttrice CISVA
Abstract
In her odeporic writings, the Apulian writer Miani
Perotti (1844 – 1931) reaffirms the regional identity
and the traditions of the genius loci in line with the
propaganda based on the backbone of demological
research in Italy in the post-unification years; that is,
the relationship between regional and national identity.
The essay analyses a collection of short stories,
Profili e paesaggi, which contains three long travel
stories (Su pe’ Colli, Riva Adriatica, Nella Magna
Grecia) that describe the rural society of Apulia. The
analysis shows that Miani Perotti favours historiographical
and ethnographic aspects at the expense of
the plot, which is therefore used as a mere pretext to
write about the past and present uses and customs of
a familiar, therefore not alienated, land.
Keywords
Adriatic odeporics; Fulvia Miani Perotti; Voluntas; reportage; Puglia region
Hrčak ID:
290712
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2022.
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