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Francesca Cadel
Outside Italy
Pasolini’s Transnational Visions of the Sacred and Tradition
In the 1960s and 1970s, Pier Paolo Pasolini described a rapidly changing world, expressing a new poetics that can be considered transnational. I will use different examples – beginning with Pasolini’s Indian travelogues – to show how his initial devotion to Italian millenary traditions and peasant cultures finally led to an open vision and understanding of human behaviors and mores beyond any national boundary.
Keywords: Pasolini, Pier Paolo; transnational economy; tradition; postcolonialism in literature; The Sacred
Rights: © by the author(s). This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Outside Italy
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Pasolini’s Transnational Visions of the Sacred and Tradition
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Francesca Cadel
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Pier Paolo Pasolini described a rapidly changing world, expressing a new poetics that can be considered transnational. I will use different examples – beginning with Pasolini’s Indian travelogues – to show how his initial devotion to Italian millenary traditions and peasant cultures finally led to an open vision and understanding of human behaviors and mores beyond any national boundary.
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Vienna
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Turia + Kant
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2012
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo
transnational economy
tradition
postcolonialism in literature
The Sacred
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© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Francesca Cadel, ‘Outside Italy: Pasolini’s Transnational Visions of the Sacred and Tradition’, 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. 151–65 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_09>
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en-GB
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151
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165
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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. 151–65
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Cite as:
Francesca Cadel, ‘Outside Italy: Pasolini’s Transnational Visions of the Sacred and Tradition’, 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. 151–65 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_09>