TESTI / 2 / Silvia Mazzini /
India was the first of a long series of Third World countries visited by Pasolini. In this essay I will analyze Pasolini’s writings and films after his visit in 1960, in search of the elements that lead him to trace the outline of the so called ‘myth of the barbaric’. I will show how and why this renewed myth of the past is not be understood as traditionalism, but rather as a subversive, creative, so as a non-traditional tradition. A tradition of a ‘transnational subproletariat’, a kind of culture Pasolini found in slums and suburbs throughout the world.
