Abstract
This paper isolates and analyzes a specific topos of Italian labour narratives, that of the strike and workers’ demonstration. Through a diachronic study and the juxtaposition of textual fragments from novels of the 1970s, 1990s, and 2000s (mainly Nanni Balestrini’s, Tommaso Di Ciaula’s, and Antonio Pennacchi’s), I will show how a progressive de-violation of artistic representation takes place in the novels and how the narrative of the workers’ struggles resembles closely the narrative modules of modern show-based entertainment societies instead of insisting on the heated and violent tones that dominated the literary representations of the 1970s. A cultural genealogy of such representation will be traced in the article.
Original language | Italian |
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Pages (from-to) | 126-147 |
Journal | Diacritica |
Volume | 52 |
Publication status | Published - 31 Jul 2024 |
Keywords
- Seventies
- Italian cinema
- Italian literature
- commedia all'italiana