Despite his ‘Third World’ and Marxist sympathies, Pier Paolo Pasolini showed, throughout his life, strong poetic and political attention for national narratives and the building of Italianness. However, Pasolini’s ‘desperate love’ for Italy and Italianness – which I consider one of the basic elements of his poetic universe – can be fully grasped only if we read it in the light of his fluid, transnational, and pan-meridional approach.
Keywords: Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Italy, Southern; panafricanism; colonialism
Part of The Scandal of Self-Contradiction Containing:
Frontmatter / Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Introduction / Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
‘La vera Diversità’: Multistability, Circularity, and Abjection in Pasolini’s Pilade / Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Pasolini as Jew: Between Israel and Europe / Robert S. C. Gordon
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pan-Meridional Italianness
The Body of the Actor: Notes on the Relationship between the Body and Acting in Pasolini’s Cinema / Agnese Grieco
The Guest: Transfiguring Indifference in Teorema / Claudia Peppel
Analogy and Difference: Multistable Figures in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana / Manuele Gragnolati
Pasolini and India: De- and Re-Construction of a Myth / Silvia Mazzini
Outside Italy: Pasolini’s Transnational Visions of the Sacred and Tradition / Francesca Cadel
Reconciliation and Stark Incompatibility: Pasolini’s ‘Africa’ and Greek Tragedy / Bernhard Gross
One Divided by Another: Split and Conversion in Pasolini’s San Paolo / Luca Di Blasi
Alain Badiou’s Pasolini: The Problem of Subtractive Universalism / Bruno Besana
Figura lacrima / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin
Cinematographic Aesthetics as Subversion of Moral Reason in Pasolini’s Medea / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Destruction, Negation, Subtraction / Alain Badiou
Bandung Man / L’uomo di Bandung / Pier Paolo Pasolini
mythisnow — pasoliniandeuropetoday / Joulia Strauss
Backmatter / Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Title
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pan-Meridional Italianness
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Giovanna Trento
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Despite his ‘Third World’ and Marxist sympathies, Pier Paolo Pasolini showed, throughout his life, strong poetic and political attention for national narratives and the building of Italianness. However, Pasolini’s ‘desperate love’ for Italy and Italianness – which I consider one of the basic elements of his poetic universe – can be fully grasped only if we read it in the light of his fluid, transnational, and pan-meridional approach.
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2012
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Italy, Southern
panafricanism
colonialism
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Giovanna Trento, ‘Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pan-Meridional Italianness’, in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 59–83 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_04>
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The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 59–83
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Cite as: Giovanna Trento, ‘Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pan-Meridional Italianness’, in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 59–83 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_04>