Performing national identity : Anglo-Italian cultural transactions

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Performing national identity : Anglo-Italian cultural transactions

edited by Manfred Pfister and Ralf Hertel

(Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 114)

Rodopi, 2008

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National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances-ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to 'cultural performances' such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media-that cultural identity and a sense of nationhood are fashioned. National identity is not an essence one is born with but something acquired in and through performances. Particularly important here are intercultural performances and transactions, and that not only in a colonial and postcolonial dimension, where such performative aspects have already been considered, but also in inner-European transactions. 'Englishness' or 'Britishness' and Italianita, the subject of this anthology, are staged both within each culture and, more importantly, in joint performances of difference across cultural borders. Performing difference highlights differences that 'make a difference'; it 'draws a line' between self and other-boundary lines that are, however, constantly being redrawn and renegotiated, and remain instable and shifting.

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Manfred PFISTER: Introduction: Performing National Identity 1. Early Modern Literary Exchanges Werner VON KOPPENFELS: 'Stripping up his sleeves like some juggler': Giordano Bruno in England, or, The Philosopher as Stylistic Mountebank Ralf HERTEL: 'Mine Italian brain 'gan in your duller Britain operate most vilely': Cymbeline and the Deconstruction of Anglo-Italian Differences 2. Italian and English Art in Dialogue John PEACOCK: Inigo Jones and the Reform of Italian Art Alison YARRINGTON: 'Made in Italy': Sculpture and the Staging of National Identities at the International Exhibition of 1862 3. Travelling Images Barbara SCHAFF: Italianised Byron - Byronised Italy Fabienne MOINE: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Italian Poetry: Constructing National Identity and Shaping the Poetic Self Stephen GUNDLE: The 'Bella Italiana' and the 'English Rose': Reflections on Two National Typologies of Feminine Beauty 4. Political Negotiations Pamela NEVILLE-SINGTON: Sex, Lies, and Celluloid: That Hamilton Woman and British Attitudes towards the Italians from the Risorgimento to the Second World War Peter VASSALLO: Italian Culture versus British Pragmatics: The Maltese Scenario David FORGACS: Gramsci's Notion of the 'Popular' in Italy and Britain: A Tale of Two Cultures 179 Carla DENTE: Personal Memory / Cultural Memory: Identity and Difference in Scottish-Italian Migrant Theatre 5. Contemporary Mediations Claudio VISENTIN: The Theatre of the World: British-Italian Identities on the Tourism Stage Judith MUNAT: Bias and Stereotypes in the Media: The Performance of British and Italian National Identities Sara SONCINI: Re-locating Shakespeare: Cultural Negotiations in Italian Dubbed Versions of Romeo and Juliet Mariangela TEMPERA: Something to Declare: Italian Avengers and British Culture in La ragazza con la pistola and Appuntamento a Liverpool Anthony KING: English Fans and Italian Football: Towards a Transnational Relationship Greg WALKER: Selling England (and Italy) by the Pound: Performing National Identity in the First Phase of Progressive Rock: Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and PFM Gisela ECKER: Zuppa Ingleseand Eating up Italy: Intercultural Feasts and Fantasies Notes on Contributors

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