TY  - CHAP
A1  - Mazzini, Silvia
A2  - Di Blasi, Luca
A2  - Gragnolati, Manuele
A2  - Holzhey, Christoph F. E.
T1  - Pasolini and India : de- and re-construction of a myth
T2  - The scandal of self-contradiction : Pasolini's multistable subjectivities, geographies, traditions ; Cultural Inquiry ; 6
N2  - Pasolini's first visit to a Third World country dates to 1960-61. His impressions and experiences during this journey are told in the collection of articles "L'odore dell'India", which, in Silvia Mazzini's opinion, also reveals his (perhaps characteristic) tension between being up-to-date and being out of time. This essay can thus be understood as a small journey through the author's travels in and relations with India. It argues that while in the 1960s the myth of India became a veritable spiritual fashion, for Pasolini this fashion trivialized the sharp contradictions of a country at once poor and splendid, full of traditions and subversive, rich with mysticism and pragmatic vitality. The collection of journalistic articles "L'odore dell' India" (1961) and the documentary "Appunti per un film sull'India" (1968), which originate from Pasolini's first journeys to the so-called 'Third World', intertwine sharp sociological analyses with instinctual observations and remarks. Mazzini shows that between the effluvia of incense and the adventures of a tiger, one can catch a glimpse of the Pasolinian vision of a humanity which is at once disruptive, archaic, and subversive, and which represents an alternative to the standardization of the consumerist society and its tendency to suppress and absorb any cultural difference.
KW  - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
KW  - Greek myths
KW  - Humanity
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Cultural identity
KW  - Pasolini, Pier Paolo:  L'odore dell'India
KW  - Indien
KW  - India
KW  - Pasolini, Pier Paolo: Appunti per un film sull'India
KW  - Kulturelle Identität
KW  - Humanität
KW  - Kapitalismus
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52595
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-525957
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-06/mazzini_pasolini-and-india.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-681-9
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 135
EP  - 150
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -