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~“Chillo è nu buono guaglione” di Pino Daniele: Verso un Sud intersezionale e queer

Frances Clemente Issue: Category: Continuing Discussions

by Frances Clemente

In his eponymous second album, released in 1979, Neapolitan musician and singer-songwriter Pino Daniele brought the femminiello to the forefront of the modern music scene for the first time with the track “Chillo è nu buono guaglione.” Inspired by a real-life figure from Naples’ historic centre, the song recounts the daily life of a femminiello, an individual deeply rooted in the Neapolitan territory who is biologically male but exhibits behaviors traditionally associated with the female gender,

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New Queer South. Journal Editorial

A. Parrinello, P. Bonifazio, N. Marini-Maio, E. Nerenberg Issue: Category: Contents, Editorials, Themed Section

Journal Editorial by Alice Parrinello (Guest Editor), Nicoletta Marini-Maio (General Editor, Continuing Discussions Editor), Ellen Nerenberg (Open Contributions Editor)

The editorial includes the Guest Editor’s and Editors’ introductions to their respective areas.

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3.Naples, Sexual Diversity and Self-Orientalism: Femminielli as a Case Study

Marco Ruggieri Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Marco Ruggieri

This article examines the figure of the femminiello, a complex sexual identity rooted in the Naples area and now gradually disappearing. It challenges the common claim that femminielli have always been accepted within Neapolitan society—one often framed as liminal and in opposition to North-Western hegemony. The femminielli’s very existence has frequently been cited as proof of Southern Italy’s (Naples’ in particular) supposed innate inclusivity.

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4.I Femminielli: A Gender Variant Existence Between Sacred and Profane in the City of Naples

Jules De Bellis Issue: Category: Themed Section

by Jules De Bellis

The femminielli are both gender non-conforming people and traditional entities of the city of Naples. They could be described as effeminate men who live and feel like women and who practise forms of sex labour, but not necessarily. The femminiello identity intersects the concepts of homosexuality, transvestism and transgenderism and contextually transcend their meaning. This paper analyses the coexistence of both sacred (Madonna) and profane (Whore) archetypes in the characterization of the Neapolitan femminielli.

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