Programme

Labelled as naïve or art brut, the artistic experience of people on the margins of the official cultural circuit could be recognised, in the last century, without a prior stigma of minority. Even in literature, wild writers (as some authors who emerged from the context of working-class labour were defined in the 1960s), semi-cultures, witnesses of psychic or social malaise (the first migrant writers who appeared in Italy at the end of the last century) finally found the right to citizenship in national literatures. In the face of this reality, major authors have sometimes mimicked the stylistic movements of that production, achieving results of rupture and renewal of narrative and poetic forms. Luigi Davì, Henry Darger and Fernanda Farìas de Albuquerque, on the one hand, and Dino Buzzati, Carlo Bordini and Gianni Celati on the other, will constitute reference points for a reconnaissance of the phenomenology of literary marginality in the contemporary era.

Core Documentation

the teacher will provide handouts during the course

Attendance

Attendance is free and will not be recorded by the lecturer. Attendance is necessary but not compulsory.

Type of evaluation

The final examination will be carried out through an individual oral interview.

Programme

Labelled as naïve or art brut, the artistic experience of people on the margins of the official cultural circuit could be recognised, in the last century, without a prior stigma of minority. Even in literature, wild writers (as some authors who emerged from the context of working-class labour were defined in the 1960s), semi-cultures, witnesses of psychic or social malaise (the first migrant writers who appeared in Italy at the end of the last century) finally found the right to citizenship in national literatures. In the face of this reality, major authors have sometimes mimicked the stylistic movements of that production, achieving results of rupture and renewal of narrative and poetic forms. Luigi Davì, Henry Darger and Fernanda Farìas de Albuquerque, on the one hand, and Dino Buzzati, Carlo Bordini and Gianni Celati on the other, will constitute reference points for a reconnaissance of the phenomenology of literary marginality in the contemporary era.

Core Documentation

the teacher will provide handouts during the course

Reference Bibliography

D. Buzzati, I miracoli di Val Morel, H. Darger, Nei regni dell’irreale, L. Davì, Gymkhana-cross, G. Celati, Comiche, C. Bordini, A. Veneziani, Dal fondo. La poesia dei marginali, C. Bordini, Gustavo. Una malattia mentale, F. Farias de Albuquerque, M. Iannelli, Princesa [any commercially available edition]

Attendance

Attendance is free and will not be recorded by the lecturer. Attendance is necessary but not compulsory.

Type of evaluation

The final examination will be carried out through an individual oral interview.