CIDRAL Research Seminar: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford): Differently Queer: Sexuality and Aesthetics in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante
| Dates: | 16 October 2014 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 19:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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Research Seminar with Professor Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville College, Oxford)
4-7pm, 16 October 2014
University Place 3.211
(organised by Dr Francesca Billiani, Italian).
Abstract:
This paper explores the analogies and differences in the aesthetics of the late works by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante. Both authors mobilize a contorted, inverted, and suspended temporality that resists linearity and teleology and, instead, allows for the articulation of paradoxical pleasures that cannot be inscribed in a normative logics of development, conversion, or productivity. In this sense the late aesthetics of Pasolini and Morante replicates a queer form of sexuality, but while in the case of Pasolini it enacts self-shattering and oblivion, it embraces inversion, fluidity, and memory in the case of Morante.
Readings:
Gragnolati, Manuele, 'Analogy and Difference: Multistable Figures in Pasolini's Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana', in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini's Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey (Berlin: Verlag Turia & Kant, 2012), pp. 119-134
Available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gpqcb5vroclm827/Gragnolati_analogy_difference-libre.pdf?dl=0
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