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Performing National Identity - Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions (Paperback)
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Performing National Identity - Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions (Paperback)
Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 114
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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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