TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gragnolati, Manuele
T1  - Differently queer : temporality, aesthetics, and sexuality in Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Petrolio" and Elsa Morante's "Aracoeli"
T2  - De/constituting wholes : towards partiality without parts / edited by Manuele Gragnolati and Christoph F.E. Holzhey ; Cultural inquiry ; vol. 11
N2  - The de-constitution of the 'I' is at the centre of Manuele Gragnolati's essay 'Differently Queer: Temporality, Aesthetics, and Sexuality in Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Petrolio" and Elsa Morante's "Aracoeli"'. The essay explores the relationship between temporality, aesthetics, and sexuality in the final novels of two twentieth-century Italian authors: Pasolini's "Petrolio" (1972–75) and Morante's "Aracoeli" (1982). Both novels mobilize a form of temporality that resists a sense of linear and teleological development and that instead appears contorted, inverted, and suspended. The article argues that both novels thereby allow for the articulation of queer desires and pleasures that cannot be inscribed in normative logics of completion, progression, or productivity. It shows how the aesthetics of Pasolini's and Morante's texts replicate the movement of queer subjectivity and dismantle the traditional structure of the novel but do so differently. The fractured and dilated movement of "Petrolio's" textuality corresponds to a post-Oedipal and fully formed subject who is haunted by his complicity with bourgeois power and wants to shatter and annihilate himself by replicating the paradoxical pleasure of non-domesticated sexuality. "Aracoeli", by contrast, has a 'formless form' ('forma senza forma') that corresponds to the position of never completing the process of subject formation by adapting to the symbolic order. The poetic operation of Morante's novel consists in staging an interior journey, backwards along the traces of memory and the body and at the same time forward towards embracing the partiality and fluidity of an inter-subjectivity that is always in the process of becoming.
KW  - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
KW  - Petrolio
KW  - Morante, Elsa
KW  - Aracoeli
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Temporality
KW  - Intersubjectivity
KW  - Becoming (Philosophy)
KW  - Italian literature  - 20th Century
KW  - Memory
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Sexualverhalten
KW  - Zeitlichkeit
KW  - Intersubjektivität
KW  - Werden
KW  - Gedächtnis
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55258
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-552587
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-11/gragnolati_differently-queer.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-854-7
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 85
EP  - 99
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -