Domesticating the Turks, Staging Otherness. The Tradition of Embodying the Turks, the Parata dei Turchi of Potenza and Its Narration in 20th-Century Folkloric Descriptions
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2021
Citazione:
Domesticating the Turks, Staging Otherness.
The Tradition of Embodying the Turks, the
Parata dei Turchi of Potenza and Its Narration
in 20th-Century Folkloric Descriptions / Tagliaferri, F. - In: ORIENTE MODERNO. - ISSN 0030-5472. - 101:3(2021), pp. 371-396. [10.1163/22138617-12340268]
Abstract:
The aim of the essay is to analyse the presence of Oriental characters in the patron
saint’s Feast of San Gerardo, taking place in the city of Potenza on 29 May. After offering
an insight into the integration of Oriental characters into Italian early modern
culture, the paper will first focus on the ‘historicity’ of the Parata dei Turchi and its
carnivalesque function. It will then move to the way in which the Turks were represented
between the 19th and 20th centuries — that is, the period from which sources
present it as an already long-established tradition — seeking to offer a contribution
to the interpretation of the tradition of the parading of Turkish masks on the annual
procession of San Gerardo.
saint’s Feast of San Gerardo, taking place in the city of Potenza on 29 May. After offering
an insight into the integration of Oriental characters into Italian early modern
culture, the paper will first focus on the ‘historicity’ of the Parata dei Turchi and its
carnivalesque function. It will then move to the way in which the Turks were represented
between the 19th and 20th centuries — that is, the period from which sources
present it as an already long-established tradition — seeking to offer a contribution
to the interpretation of the tradition of the parading of Turkish masks on the annual
procession of San Gerardo.
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Keywords:
carnivalesque – Turks – San Gerardo – Potenza – procession – Otherness
Elenco autori:
Tagliaferri, F
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