Ilaria Meloni
Razze, greggi, forestieri. Forme stereotipate di naturalizzazione della differenza nella commedia sarda del novecento
Bachis F
2015-01-01
Abstract
The ‘cummeda’ is farcical traditional folk theatre wide spread in Sardinia, particularly in Southern Sardinia where ‘Campidanese’ is spoken. The works have been performed by amateurish theatre companies since the beginning of the twentieth century; they are characterized by puns which play on Sardinian and Italian, and often depict characters alien to the rural environment in which the scenes are set, because they are from mainland Italy or because they have become estranged from their original social environment having acquired, often superficially, the Italian way of speaking during life on the mainland. When the discursive forms found in these works are studied, analysing the language and the stereotypes, we can read some linguistic structures of the alterity that the authors’ imagination is subject to and that of the audience the works are dedicated to. The essay examines a corpus of 23 plays written between 1907 and 1987 starting from analogous works on imaginary forms (Clara Gallini, Giochi pericolosi. Frammenti di un immaginario alquanto razzista, Manifestolibri, Rome 1996); it reconstructs the main forms of naturalistic stereotype which preside over the construction of alterity within and outside Sardinia. The essay focuses particularly on the polysemous importance of the notion of race and the agro-pastoral metaphors used to define boundaries between groups.File | Size | Format | |
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