The essay focuses on studies on the Italians of Tunisia, who over several centuries constituted a trans-Mediterranean migrant community, to discuss the historiographical approach which has inspired them. The emphasis on the “Italian community” reveals that a nationalist paradigm is unintentionally at work. A “category of practice” has become a “category of analysis”, a category shift which has gone unquestioned. As a result, historical studies reinforced Italian identity and an alternative vision of the Tunisian nation based on the harmonious coexistence of several “communities”.

De l’italianité aux Italiens de Tunisie : identité nationale et recherche historique

MELFA, AGATA DANIELA
2013-01-01

Abstract

The essay focuses on studies on the Italians of Tunisia, who over several centuries constituted a trans-Mediterranean migrant community, to discuss the historiographical approach which has inspired them. The emphasis on the “Italian community” reveals that a nationalist paradigm is unintentionally at work. A “category of practice” has become a “category of analysis”, a category shift which has gone unquestioned. As a result, historical studies reinforced Italian identity and an alternative vision of the Tunisian nation based on the harmonious coexistence of several “communities”.
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