During the 1980s and 1990s Gramsci’s name was often cited by the architects of the postcolonial critical period, for the most part with reference to the concept of hegemony and in a fairly generic way. Meanwhile, Gramsci and Joyce, as protagonists and interpreters of the turbulent genesis of the Short Twentieth Century, have much in common regarding the link between culture and subordination. Even on a formal level, Gramsci’s reflections on language as a “continuous process of metaphors” and the history of semantics as “an aspect of the history of culture” were not taken into account, although these notions could illustrate how Gramsci’s positions are consonant with, or even analogous to, qualifying features of Joyce’s poetics. Here it is hoped that thanks to Gramsci’s contributions, Joyce’s work will be seen as an extraordinary example of philological reflections on reality, and emphasizing that the most recent critical trends, putting aside the antidemocratic glorification that characterized much modernism, together reject the nihilistic outcome of a certain deconstruction.
Il nome di Gramsci viene citato fra gli anni ottanta e novanta dagli artefici della stagione critica postcoloniale con riferimento, per lo più, al concetto di egemonia e in maniera abbastanza generica, mentre Gramsci e Joyce, da protagonisti e interpreti della tumultuosa genesi del Secolo Breve, hanno molto in comune riguardo al legame fra cultura e subalternità. Anche a livello formale non si tiene conto della riflessione gramsciana sul linguaggio come « continuo processo di metafore », e della storia della semantica come « un aspetto della storia della cultura », nozioni che potrebbero illustrare come le posizioni di Gramsci risultino consone, o addirittura analoghe, a tratti qualificanti della poetica joyciana. Si auspica qui che, anche grazie all’apporto gramsciano, l’opera joyciana venga guardata come uno straordinario esempio di riflessione filologica sulla realtà, e si sottolinea come le tendenze più recenti della critica, mettendone da parte l’esaltazione antidemocratica che fu del modernismo, rifiutino insieme l’esito nichilista di certa decostruzione.
Dal funambolo al subalterno: note su Joyce postcoloniale, da una prospettiva gramsciana
Mauro Pala
2022-01-01
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During the 1980s and 1990s Gramsci’s name was often cited by the architects of the postcolonial critical period, for the most part with reference to the concept of hegemony and in a fairly generic way. Meanwhile, Gramsci and Joyce, as protagonists and interpreters of the turbulent genesis of the Short Twentieth Century, have much in common regarding the link between culture and subordination. Even on a formal level, Gramsci’s reflections on language as a “continuous process of metaphors” and the history of semantics as “an aspect of the history of culture” were not taken into account, although these notions could illustrate how Gramsci’s positions are consonant with, or even analogous to, qualifying features of Joyce’s poetics. Here it is hoped that thanks to Gramsci’s contributions, Joyce’s work will be seen as an extraordinary example of philological reflections on reality, and emphasizing that the most recent critical trends, putting aside the antidemocratic glorification that characterized much modernism, together reject the nihilistic outcome of a certain deconstruction.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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