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- Title: Toward a Genealogy and Methodology of Italian Cultural Studies (Critical Essay)
- Author : Annali d'Italianistica
- Release Date : January 01, 1998
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 213 KB
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A notion that seems to become more and more widely accepted among scholars, students, and opinion makers is that the origin of Cultural Studies in Italy can be traced back to, or at least put under the umbrella of the work of Antonio Gramsci. Undoubtedly, the views contained in Gramsci's Prison Notebooks have much to share with contemporary formulations (by Harris, for instance) and not only regarding Italian culture(s): all specific manifestations of "cultural production" are for Gramsci historically and socially defined; moreover, each system or set of values can be seen as determined by the processes by which a certain social group tries to establish and preserve its identity. In broaching the subject, one may easily question the ideal continuity between Gramsci's work and current cultural studies, especially in view of the fact that Gramsci's Notebooks, written in the 1930s, was published only after the war, providing thus an example of sputtering uprootedness. (1) In addition, everybody seems today impatient to appropriate Gramsci: phenomena like the "gramscisme-dedroite" and the "Gramsci 'R' Us" terminology are just two of the most endearing and entertaining pieces of an exuberant "Gramsci industry." (2)