"All the Regions Do Smilingly Revolt": The Literature of Place and Region

Dainotto, Roberto

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Section: Strategy 1: Appreciating the Universal In The Provincialmentioning

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“…A focus on the local can run the risk of contributing to a sort of traditionalist populism, a ‘desire for an ethnic purity that we have lost in the city’ or even racist tendencies (Dainotto, 1996: 503). However, this premise is based on a deep-rooted prejudice about the provinces being essentially concerned with the past and stasis, in opposition to modernity and change: ‘how can our preindustrial bliss of closely knit communal life, annihilated by history, return as geography?’ (Dainotto, 1996: 496). This rather inflexible binaristic characterization, which the present article opposes, is haunted by the stark centre/periphery dichotomy that gained traction in nineteenth-century Europe (Shils, 1975), with the provincial – supposedly backwards and narrow-minded – as the opposite of the cosmopolitan, which in fact had negative connotations before taking on the sense of forward-looking and worldly (Chattopadhyay, 2012; Evangelista, 2021).…”

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Reclaiming provincialism

2022

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This article argues against the lingering pejorative usage of the term ‘provincialism’ in public discourse in particular. It engages with transnational debates emerging from Australia and French-speaking settings, where provincialism often denotes backwardness, isolation, and a lack of high culture. Through explorations of (a) the universalizing value of the provincial and (b) the diversifying concept of ‘provincializing’, the article advocates for a reconceptualization of the term ‘provincialism’. This is worthwhile on at least two counts: challenging stale dichotomies such as cosmopolitan/unworldly; acknowledging the agency of so-called ‘provincials’ and their essential cultural contributions. The article contributes to debates in human geography and related disciplines by unpacking longstanding questions of inclusion and exclusion. Ultimately, it reclaims the value of provincialism as a term with the capacity to bridge varied areas of scholarship, thereby fostering empowerment and moving beyond deleterious ideas of geography.

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Section: Strategy 1: Appreciating the Universal In The Provincialmentioning

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Section: Strategy 1: Appreciating the Universal In The Provincialmentioning

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Reclaiming provincialism

2022

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“…67 In treating the lieu as a symbolic instrument rather than a physical site, Bufalino's and Consolo's instrumental use of the Sicilian place in their textual commemorations seems to transform place into a vehicle for articulating a certain view of Sicilian cultural and literary identity: thus place becomes both a means of cultural organization and a 'category of cultural understanding'. 68 Bufalino's and Consolo's texts themselves thus become 'memory sites', with the Sicilian intellectual self-positioned as commemorative agent, who orders, anthologizes, interprets past texts, and places them in relation to each other to construct what becomes a communal memory. This act of ordering and interpreting has a function for cultural memory, Jan Assmann argues, which is both formative and normative.…”

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Mapping Sicilian Literature: Place and Text in Bufalino and Consolo

O’Rawe¹

2007

Italian Studies

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This article examines the articulation of a 'poetics of place' as found specifically in essays and prefaces by the Sicilian writers Gesualdo Bufalino and Vincenzo Consolo. It places both authors within a tradition of writing about Sicily, a tradition which is, it has been argued, 'citationary' and intertextual. It then outlines the three principal techniques the authors use to construct a particular rhetorical discourse of the Sicilian place, which entwines texts and landscape in a particular manner: they create literary cartographies and topographies of Sicily, they describe and recuperate past landscapes through citations of canonical Sicilian texts, and they use figures and metaphors which unite the material and the symbolic, with the effect of positioning their own texts as monuments to a disappearing place. Finally, the article discusses the relation between this prefatorial production and the status of its authors as intellectuals within the Sicilian context. introductionThe distinctive nature of the modern Sicilian literary tradition has received much critical attention, particularly in Italy. Critics have long focused on the novelistic canon of Sicilian writing in Italian, and on the endogenous nature of this canon. 1 The predilection of Sicilian authors for place-writing (whether taking the form of descriptions of local places, or reflections on the relation between Sicilian landscape and identity) has been noted by many; however, the peculiar and complex relation between the obsessive presence of Sicily in works by Sicilian writers, and the precise nature of the textual forms which articulate this presence, has not been adequately examined. 2 This article addresses this 'poetics of place', this series of obsessively recurring narrative and thematic procedures associated with the representation of the Sicilian space, as it is articulated in the non-fictional works of Gesualdo Bufalino and Vincenzo Consolo, two of the most illustrious recent representatives of the modern Sicilian novelistic canon. This poetics of place differs from the notion of 'geographical poetics' discussed

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“…Roberto M. Dainotto, pisząc o współczesnym regionalizmie literackim, stwierdza, że naśladuje on i przedrzeźnia nacjonalizm w swoim waloryzowaniu etnicznej czystości, sięgając po ten sam język i te same pragnienia -zarazem niewinne i groźne, jak je określa -czystości i autentyczności. Zdaniem badacza kategorie regionu i narodu są do siebie na tyle podobne, że regionalizm może sięgać po nacjonalistyczne ideały, forsując je jako regionalistyczne hasła (Dainotto 1996, 500-501) 6 .…”

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Naród – region – literatura: miejsca wspólne

Mikołajczak¹

2019

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The multifaceted, complex and historically variable relationships between the nation, the region and literature can be discussed from various points of view. In the paper, I focus on two aspects. The first one concerns the intertwining of national and regionalist ideas and its impact on the development of literary regionalism. The other one concerns regional literature as such and its contribution to the creation of a national narrative. In the paper, I demonstrate that the reference to the national context makes it possible to track once again the development of literary regionalism, as well as read regional works anew. This is linked to the contemporary revaluation of regional works and its treatment as an important voice in the debate on the civil society and the nation.

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"All the Regions Do Smilingly Revolt": The Literature of Place and Region

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Reclaiming provincialism

Reclaiming provincialism

Mapping Sicilian Literature: Place and Text in Bufalino and Consolo

Naród – region – literatura: miejsca wspólne

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