« J’affirme un besoin déchirant de minorités alliées » : pensée et poétique du minoritaire chez Pasolini

• Main Author: Léa Passerone
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: ENS Éditions 2016-04-01
• Series: Tracés
• Subjects: minority; dialect; difference; exclusion; transversality; experience
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/traces/6469

As an homosexual, anti-bourgeois artist, who met and evoked Friulians, the Roman sub-proletariat, Jews, Blacks, homosexuals, Pasolini was closely involved with minorities. For him, the situation of minorities was something which he could experience and observe in his daily life. Throughout his work as a writer and director, he endeavoured to tell about and show minorities, whatever they might be. This article charts the progress of this central theme in Pasolini’s work, highlighting the thought and the poetics which derived from it, within their constants and their variations. For Pasolini, minorities first and foremost stood apart the dominant model. At a time when the civil rights movements in America and the economic boom in Italy were in full swing, the lyricism which evoked the unescapable exclusion of minority subjects was offset by an epic line which called for a fighting alliance between minorities, and by a polemical line which denounced all kinds of persecutions against minorities.