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neglect of Africa is irreducible Pasolini

A book Joan Trent

Consciousness removed West, this is Africa Pierpaolo Pasolini. The more jealous of its own rural land, impassable frontier for capitalist industry. To continue to use the language of the time, is the unconscious life repressed by bourgeois rationalism. Point of reference, therefore, in Pasolini's critique of modernity, traced by the well documented book by Giovanna Trento, Italian research fellow in South Africa, Africa Pasolini, Africa Pasolini (Mimesis, 19 €).
After a decade at the forefront in the defense of Friulian peasant society, its culture and the dialect being jeopardized by the postwar boom, the first trip of Pasolini in Africa (in Kenya in 1961) is an immediate sight. A discovery that occurs very early, driven by nostalgia for the rural areas threatened by the advance of industry. Since then, visits and lectures would not stop. Numerous texts and projects would be dedicated to Africa, prose, poetry, articles, travel notes, some script (Father wild) and two films (an African Orestes and part of the Thousand and One Nights). At the center of such a vast production, spirituality and threatened elsewhere lost, attacked by an ideology of development contrary to the mystery for life and all forms of spirituality. From the social point of view, the love for the underdog, people upset by decisions taken in aseptic offices of the West, disjointed social fabric unstoppable by the advance of the market.
Not everything, of course, Pasolini's analysis still holds today. Beginning with the paternalistic and unconditional sympathy towards rural worlds often ruthless and insensitive to individual liberties. And always, as the title of the book coincides with the real Africa that dreamed of by Pasolini. Difficult, for example, marrying a rereading of Greek nell'Edipo made king, where the universality of classical culture would presupposed in the vicinity of the primitive, the pre-industrial to the truth. As for the border as panmeridionalismo of democratic culture, Africa as a land that reveals all the irreducible demands of modernity and industry, however, Pasolini had really been right.