Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Letteratura Minore e Scrittura dell'Impegno Sociale
Advisor:
Capozzi, Rocco
Department:
Italian Studies
Keywords:
Pier Vittorio Tondelli; Italian Literature; Gay Literature; 20th Century Italian Literature; Minor Literature; Engagement; Social Engagement; Camp; Gay Studies; Queer Studies; Queer Theory; Literary Criticism; Impegno; Elio Vittorini; Impegno e letteratura; Impegno e intellettuali; Pier Paolo Pasolini; Italo Calvino; Franco Fortini; Leonardo Sciascia; Umberto Eco; Alberto Arbasino; Letteratura del XX secolo; Letteratura italiana contemporanea; Impegno sociale; Letteratura minore; Critica letteraria; Letteratura del '900; Antonio Gramsci; Homophobia; Gender Studies; Omofobia; AIDS Literature; HIV Literature; Commitment; Homoerotic Literature; Separate Rooms; Camere separate; Other Libertines; Altri libertini; Dinnery Party; Rimini; Pao Pao; Il diario del soldato Acci; Correggio; Reggio Emilia; Narratori delle pianure; Emilia Romagna; Italia; Italy; Jesuit School; Gesuiti; Catholicism; Cattolicesimo; Beat Literature; Pop Literature; Noir; Postmodernismo; Postmoderno; Postmodern; Postmodernism; Federico Fellini; Eugenio Bolongaro; Gary Cestaro; Antonio Spadaro; Fulvio Panzeri; Religione; Religion; Pop Culture; Mass Culture; 1977; DAMS; Bologna; Movimento del '77; Michel Foucault; Esther Newton
Issue Date:
Mar-2012
Abstract (summary):
Abstract
This thesis illustrates the social engagement in the literary writings of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, an Italian gay author whose works have been described by many Catholic, Materialists, and gay critics as frivolous and disengaged. The dissertation summarizes the mutation of the Italian literary concept of impegno from Neorealism to Postmodernism, through a selection of the texts of Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Franco Fortini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo Sciascia, and Umberto Eco. It shows how Tondelli’s interpretation of the role of the writer falls within the definitions given by Calvino and Eco. Moreover, the thesis demonstrates that Altri libertini and Pao Pao satisfy the characteristics of littérature mineure established by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, though Tondelli’s oeuvre is socially engaged instead of being politically engaged because of his lack of a political ideology. The dissertation highlights the core of Tondelli’s social commitment in his passionate defense of the outcasts in: Altri libertini where drug addicts, homosexuals, transsexuals, and bums are the protagonists; Pao Pao where a group of gay soldiers is described in its grotesque and camp attempt to “homosexualize” their barrack; Rimini where the Riviera Adriatica is portrayed as a place where everyone passes by and no one belongs; Camere separate through the love story of a gay couple in which one partner has to survive his lover’s death, due to an illness that is demonstrated in this thesis to be AIDS, while fighting against the homophobia of their families, institutions, society, and religion. Most of Tondelli’s socially excluded characters are introduced to the reader through an internal homodiegetic point of view. Another important component of Tondelli’s impegno is his open defense of both pop-culture and counter-cultures: gay, hippies, rockers, experimental theatre, street artists and alternative radio, which are central in all his writings.
Permanent Link:
https://hdl.handle.net/1807/44076
Content Type:
Thesis
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