Queering the southern border

Challenges to Italian homonationalism in Emma Dante's Via Castellana Bandiera (2013)

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ID18928682
AuthorsGoffredo Polizzi (0000-0001-5376-5240, University of Warwick, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume25
Issue2
Pages147-161
Publication date2020-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern Italy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-2944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9877
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/mit.2019.64
OpenAlexW2999323829
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

Set in contemporary Palermo, Emma Dante's Via Castellana Bandiera (2013) offers a powerful exploration of the South as a site of cultural contact, interaction and confrontation by focusing on a western-like showdown between two women whose lives are differently marked by mobility and migration. In Dante's film, the simultaneous articulation of queerness and southernness is a way to queer the traditional image of the frontier and to offer an evocative elaboration on how identities are constructed, mobilised and played off against each other in the neoliberal context

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Frontier · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law

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