Postmodern Impegno - Impegno postmoderno

This book challenges widespread and largely negative assumptions about Italian postmodernism and postmodernism in general. It considers contemporary Italian culture as a particularly interesting testing-ground for pluriform struggles of an ethical or political kind, struggles which build upon, whilst rejecting the essentialist assumptions behind, conventional notions of artistic commitment, or <I>impegno</I>.<BR> Drawing on a variety of cultural fields and artistic media ¿ from cinema to the literary genres of autobiography, romance and the <I>giallo</I>; from feminism to <I>pensiero debole</I>; from theatrical performance to shared practices of cultural memory ¿ the volume charts instances of ethical commitment and emancipatory social and political intervention in Italian culture within a post-ideological and post-hegemonic framework, siding with a more constructive and less ¿apocalyptic¿ analysis of the cultural climate of the past two decades in Italy. This balancing act is describe