Art and the expression of complex identities: Imagining and contesting ethnicity in performance
Edited by Valentina Pagliai and Marcia Farr
Special issue of Pragmatics 10:1 (2000) ca. 125 pp.
Valentina Pagliai
List of John Benjamins publications for which Valentina Pagliai plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2005 Singing gender: Contested discourses of womanhood in Tuscan-Italian verbal art Pragmatics 15:4, pp. 437–457 | Article
In this article, we explore the presentation and contestation of discourses of womanhood in verbal art performance. In Tuscan-Italian Contrasto verbal duels the artists, both males and females, may impersonate female characters as they exchange insults between each other. In doing so, they deploy… read more
2000 Lands i came to sing: Negotiating identities and places in the Tuscan “Contrasto” Art and the expression of complex identities: Imagining and contesting ethnicity in performance, Pagliai, Valentina and Marcia Farr (eds.), pp. 125–146 | Article
This article on a genre of Tuscan Italian verbal art, the Contrasta, uses performance as a key to look at the connections between ethnic identity and place. The Contrasta takes its name, “contrast”, from its humorous representation of a verbal duel among entities, people or ideas. Structurally, it… read more