Pier Paolo Pasolini and pan-meridional Italianness
- Giovanna Trento's article 'Pier Paolo Pasolini and Panmeridional Italianness' engages Pasolini's aesthetic, poetic, and political approach in terms of the complementary dichotomy of national and 'local' issues, on the one hand, and transnational and panmeridional topoi, on the other. Trento argues that despite his 'Third World' and Marxist sympathies, Pasolini showed strong poetic and political attention to national narratives and the building of Italianness. But Pasolini's 'desperate love' for Italy and Italianness, Trento argues, can be fully grasped only if we read it in the light of his fluid, transnational and panmeridional approach marked by different - and at times antithetical - factors, such as the pan-Africanist perspective and the colonial memory. Pasolini was indeed able to build a deterritorialized and idealized never-ending South: the Pan-South (Panmeridione) - that is, a fluid, non-geographical topos where 'traditional' values are used in non-traditional and subversive ways with the goal of resisting industrialization, mass media, and late-capitalist alienation.
Author: | Giovanna Trento |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-525996 |
URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-06/trento_pan-meridional-italianness.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_04 |
ISBN: | 978-3-85132-681-9 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | The scandal of self-contradiction : Pasolini's multistable subjectivities, geographies, traditions ; Cultural Inquiry ; 6 |
Publisher: | Turia + Kant |
Place of publication: | Wien |
Editor: | Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2019/12/17 |
Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2019/12/20 |
Tag: | Colonialism; Italy, Southern; Panafricanism |
GND Keyword: | Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Italien. Süd; Kolonialismus; Afrika; Eritrea |
Page Number: | 25 |
First Page: | 59 |
Last Page: | 83 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 458872199 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |