Memories of Joy for a Futureless World: Aesthetic and Political Commitment in Jasieński and Pasolini
Memories of Joy for a Futureless World: Aesthetic and Political Commitment in Jasieński and Pasolini
Author(s): Krzysztof RowińskiSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Psychology, Customs / Folklore, Marxist economics, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Sociology, Culture and social structure , Social Theory, Theory of Literature, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: joy; socialist realism; proletarian aesthetics; folk cultures
Summary/Abstract: Discussions of cultural disappearance are often couched in terms of nostalgia and tragedy. Bruno Jasieński in Bal manekinów and Pier Paolo Pasolini in Ragazzi di vita offer an alternative form of remembering disappearance through memories of joy, understood as a distinctly political practice. Acutely aware of the untenability of what they were celebrating (pockets of liberty from cultural uniformity, in local cultures and aesthetic experimentation, respectively), both writers maintained a sense of political commitment, offering a good broader model for thinking about a world without a future.
Journal: Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica
- Issue Year: 8/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 1-17
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
