“Nello stesso mare di tutti”
Queer Temporality and the Mediterranean in Emma Dante and Valentina Pedicini
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21340175 |
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| Authors | Alice Parrinello (0000-0002-5116-6882, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 346-362 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Italica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-3020 • E-ISSN: 2325-6672 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/23256672.102.3.04 |
| OpenAlex | W7155524357 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Southern Italy has frequently been associated with a rhetoric of backwardness and immobility, which constructs the region as the opposite of the modern and productive North. However, a cultural and epistemological reinvention of the South is taking place today. This trend is reflected especially in the films of Emma Dante and Valentina Pedicini. This article analyzes Pedicini's Era ieri (2016) and Dante's Le sorelle Macaluso (2020) and, in doing so, it argues firstly that both films contest a stereotyped view of Southern Italy by focusing on queer girlhood and lesbian desire. Secondly, the article contends that both films present the Mediterranean Sea as not just a key element for a Southern epistemology but also a central conductor for queer temporality. Ultimately, this article asserts that the temporalities represented by Dante and Pedicini disrupt the anti-meridionalist image of Southern immobility by promoting a fluid present-ness
Backwardness · CONTEST · Element (criminal law) · Human sexuality · Queer · Rhetoric · Temporalities · Temporality · Historical and Environmental Studies · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
| Highly cited | No |
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