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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 my 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.
Keywords: Pasolini, Pier Paolo - L’odore dell India; India; Greek myths; humanity; capitalism; cultural identity
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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 / Giovanna Trento
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
Pasolini and India
Subtitle
De- and Re-Construction of a Myth
Author(s)
Silvia Mazzini
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_08
Description
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 my 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.
Is Part Of
The Scandal of Self-Contradiction
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2012
Subject
Pasolini, Pier Paolo - L’odore dell India
India
Greek myths
humanity
capitalism
cultural identity
Rights
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This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Bibliographic Citation
Silvia Mazzini, ‘Pasolini and India: De- and Re-Construction of a Myth’, 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. 135–50 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_08>
Language
en-GB
page start
135
page end
150
Source
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. 135–50
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Cite as: Silvia Mazzini, ‘Pasolini and India: De- and Re-Construction of a Myth’, 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. 135–50 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_08>