AtDTdA: (9) 254

[Dave Monroe]

--- Jasper <jasper.fidget at gmail.com> wrote:

> Irredentist elements
> Irredentism is any position advocating annexation
> of territories administered by another state on
> the grounds of common ethnicity and/or prior
> historical possession, actual or alleged. It is a
> feature of identity politics and cultural and
> political geography. Since most borders have been
> moved and redrawn at one point, a great many
> countries could theoretically present irredentist
> claims to their neighbours.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredentism

Cf. ...

"Rumor had it that a week or so later the lady V. ran
off with one Sgherraccio, a mad Irredentist."  (V.,
Ch. 14, Sec. ii, p. 414)

"Irrendentist"

J. Kerry Grant, A Companion to V. (Athens: U of
Georgia P, 2001), on "Italia irredenta" (V., p. 242)
...

"Literally, 'Unreddemed Italy.'  The name of those
portions of Italian-speaking Europe under foreign rule
during the period 1861-1920 ....  Dugdale note the
irony of the fact that V. dies on Malta, 'victim of a
mad extension of Irredentism in which the island was
bombed to rubble in an impossible attempt to regain it
for Italy' ...." (p. 124)

Citing John Dugdale, Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables
of Power (New York: St. Martin's, 1990), p. 111 ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56890


 
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