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2.Working in the Shadows: Collaboration as Queer Practice

Sole Anatrone & Julia Heim Issue: Category: Collaborations

by Sole Anatrone & Julia Heim

With this article we invite the reader to participate in our multimediatic conversation about collaboration as a queer practice. We map out the ways working together can be generative through an elaboration of the queer theoretics of collaboration as a moving, living evolving archive. Through the example of our translation of Smagliature, a book written by several transnational transfeminist groups, we show how collective scholarly work done outside the university calls into question established practices and frameworks of academic legitimacy.

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Queer Italian Cultures. Themed Section Editorial.

Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, SA Smythe Issue: Category: Editorials, Themed Section

by Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, SA Smythe

The editorial includes the Guest Editors’ introductions to their respective areas. Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe offer a brief critical contextualization of current and ongoing sociopolitical issues undergirding the question of LGBTQIA+ rights in Italy. They reflect on anti-queer/anti-LGBT discrimination within academia, on intersectional solidarity and activism, and on the developing field of “Queer Italian Studies.” The editorial also provides a summary of the articles contained in the volume. 

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1.Queer, Frocia, Femminiellə, Ricchione et al. – Localizing “Queer” in the Italian Context

Eva Nossem Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Eva Nossem

This paper aims at examining the reception, (g)localization, and also (re)creation of different forms of “queer” in the Italian context. First, I conduct a semasiological analysis of the diachronic semantic and connotative development of the English-turned-global “queer” in order to provide a detailed insight into its palimpsestic meaning. The offensive qualities of the slur, I argue, provide the aggressive power required for self-definition in queer activism. In a next step,

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6.Teenage “Somatechnics”: Classed, Gendered, and Racialised Subjectivities in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name and Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare

Samuele Grassi Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Samuele Grassi

In this paper I examine presences-absences and dis-allowed mobilities in neoliberal Italy through a comparative reading of two apparently unrelated films: Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2018) and Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare (Fire At Sea, 2016). My comparative approach is informed by new materialist feminist critiques, drawing primarily from queer feminist, post-colonial, and de-colonial thinkers whose work aims to dismantle the naturalisation of differences to make new worlds and unmake existing ones.

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10. The Importance of Being Ernesto: Queerness and Multidirectional Desire in Umberto Saba’s Unfinished Novel

Paolo Frascà Issue: Category: Open Contributions

by Paolo Frascà

This article explores Umberto Saba’s (1983-1957) only and unfinished novel, Ernesto (1975), from the perspective of sexuality and Queer studies, while also paying attention to the novel’s language and its autobiographical underpinnings. By examining aspects of the work that render it an important testimony of queer desire, this essay aims to shine a light on Ernesto as an important Italian literary text and on the text’s ability to reveal significant and timeless aspects of the human condition,

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11. La Gaia Piazza. Le orme del movimento gay nella Parma negli anni Settanta

Antonella Grassi Issue: Category: Open Contributions

by Antonella Grassi

This article aims to explore the gay movement of Parma in the 1970s, to show its implicit, ante litteram consonance with the queer discourse. The ability to reinvent itself was the peculiar feature of the Parma group, always aware of the constant evolution of artistic forms: this made it a unique case in Italy, as well as a privileged point of view for studying the evolution of the national gay movement.

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7. Translingual Queer Practice

Serena Bassi Issue: Category: Invited Perspectives

by Serena Bassi

Serena Bassi suggests that we rethink what the relationship between social change and evolution of language usage might look like. To offer a different perspective on the subject, she asks how a Translation Studies paradigm helps us reflect on the “gay rights” vocabularies that have appeared in various guises in Italy since the 1960s. In English.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15781/vhpj-pr19

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2. Contro il dominio del canone eterosessista. Una rilettura queer del personaggio di Turandot

Marta Riccobono Issue: Category: Themed Section

Contro il dominio del canone eterosessista. Una rilettura queer del personaggio di Turandot

by Marta Riccobono

This article proposes a re-reading of the literary character of Turandot through the perspective of gender studies and queer theory, with particular reference to the works of Judith Butler and Eve Sedgwick. The tragicomedy Turandot, brought to the stage by Carlo Gozzi in 1762, and the homonymous Puccinian melodrama, represented for the first time at the Scala in 1926,

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