Alcune considerazioni su Storia della Sicilia e stereotipi

Abstract

Which stereotypes are at the center of a cultural tradition aimed at representing Sicily as a land "sequestered" and substantially refractory to the acceleration generated by the break of modernity? The essay follows these plots, between historiography, philosophical and literary culture, to make explicit the procedural character of this discourse and its ideological nature. A new historiographical representation emerges, aimed at eliminating the ideological matrix of this debate. It is a matter of taking charge of the lesson tending to give back to the island a realistic story devoid of self-aggrandizing tendencies