A lecture by Manuele Gragnolati (University of Oxford) In ENGLISH.

Focussing on the connection between textuality, subjectivity and politics, this paper explores analogies and differences in the late works by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante.

The aesthetics of both authors resists linearity and allows for the articulation of paradoxical pleasures that cannot be inscribed in a normative logics of development, conversion, or productivity. In this sense the late texts by Pasolini and Morante deploy a political aesthetics that replicates a queer form of sexuality, but while Pasolini enacts self-shattering and oblivion, Morante embraces inversion, fluidity and memory.

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