Rhiannon Noel Welch is Assistant Professor of Italian and Cinema Studies at Rutgers University

'In Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, Professor Welch does what many of us have wanted to do now for some time. And that is to critique incisively and broadly 20th century Italian culture from a biopolitical perspective. Reading at times with and against the grain of how we usually understand Italy from the Risorigmento to today, Professor Welch relentlessly traces just how deeply biology and the political came together over the last two centuries to alter bodies, subjects, and life itself in Italy. A primer on how to bring so called "Italian Theory" to bear on some of the unanswered questions about race that characterize Italy today, Vital Subjects will shake up how we understand contemporary and not so past Italy. Definitely not to be missed.' Professor Timothy Campbell, Cornell University

• Introduction. Vital SubjectsChapter One. Colonial (Re)productivityChapter Two. Immunitary TechnologiesChapter Three. Mutilated LimbsChapter Four. Biopolitics & Colonial DriveEpilogue.Bibliography

Rhiannon Noel Welch is Assistant Professor of Italian and Cinema Studies at Rutgers University

'In Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, Professor Welch does what many of us have wanted to do now for some time. And that is to critique incisively and broadly 20th century Italian culture from a biopolitical perspective. Reading at times with and against the grain of how we usually understand Italy from the Risorigmento to today, Professor Welch relentlessly traces just how deeply biology and the political came together over the last two centuries to alter bodies, subjects, and life itself in Italy. A primer on how to bring so called "Italian Theory" to bear on some of the unanswered questions about race that characterize Italy today, Vital Subjects will shake up how we understand contemporary and not so past Italy. Definitely not to be missed.' Professor Timothy Campbell, Cornell University

• Introduction. Vital SubjectsChapter One. Colonial (Re)productivityChapter Two. Immunitary TechnologiesChapter Three. Mutilated LimbsChapter Four. Biopolitics & Colonial DriveEpilogue.Bibliography

Rhiannon Noel Welch is Assistant Professor of Italian and Cinema Studies at Rutgers University

'In Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, Professor Welch does what many of us have wanted to do now for some time. And that is to critique incisively and broadly 20th century Italian culture from a biopolitical perspective. Reading at times with and against the grain of how we usually understand Italy from the Risorigmento to today, Professor Welch relentlessly traces just how deeply biology and the political came together over the last two centuries to alter bodies, subjects, and life itself in Italy. A primer on how to bring so called "Italian Theory" to bear on some of the unanswered questions about race that characterize Italy today, Vital Subjects will shake up how we understand contemporary and not so past Italy. Definitely not to be missed.' Professor Timothy Campbell, Cornell University

• Introduction. Vital SubjectsChapter One. Colonial (Re)productivityChapter Two. Immunitary TechnologiesChapter Three. Mutilated LimbsChapter Four. Biopolitics & Colonial DriveEpilogue.Bibliography