Feasting on History by James De Lorenzi - 9780231217750

Feasting on HistoryEthiopia and the Orientalists\nAuthor(s): James De Lorenzi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231217750, 978-0231217750\nSynopsis\nDuring the brutal Italian occupation of Ethiopia [tel], the country descended into endless counterinsurgency and mass violence, which specifically targeted local intellectuals with the sanction of Italys leading experts. Yet these atrocities followed decades of dialogue between Ethiopian and Italian researchers, and in the postcolonial era, their successors continued to debate Ethiopias past and future as survivors and perpetrators. This historical reckoning unfolded against the backdrop of Third World liberation, disputed colonial guilt, and the search for postcolonial justice.\n\nFeasting on History is a wide-ranging intellectual history of the Italian-Ethiopian relationship, told through the intertwined lives of Heruy Wld Sellas, an Ethiopian writer.