‘La tradizione è come il mare’: Giuseppe Pitrè’s Transnational Approach to Folk and Fairy Tales in the New Italy

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Italian Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI:10.1080/00751634.2022.2070368

Eveljn Ferraro

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ABSTRACT Recent English and Italian translations of Giuseppe Pitrè’s Fiabe, novelle e racconti popolari have revived attention to the Sicilian folklorist. In Italy, collecting oral traditions emerged as a practice of regional cultural preservation during the political unification, modernisation, and redefinition of local identities within the new nation. This essay examines Pitrè’s introductory commentaries to his Fiabe in order to contextualise his comparative methodology and transnational approach to Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Pitrè’s ‘Preface’ and preliminary essay ‘Of folk tales’ offer insights into local history, women as storytellers, and Sicilian tales in relation to other regional traditions and transcultural folk repertoires. Mindful of Pitrè’s reinforcement of Sicilian stereotypes, this essay highlights his articulation of cultural difference as intervention and resistance to cultural totalisations. Pitrè’s simile of the sea-tradition best encapsulates his connections with transnational oral narratives and their power to cross national borders and disturb rigid national identity constructs.

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“La tradizione è come il mare”:朱塞佩Pitrè对新意大利民间童话的跨国研究

朱塞佩Pitrè的中篇小说《民间传说》(Fiabe, e racconti populari)的英、意译本重新引起了人们对这位西西里民俗学家的关注。在意大利，在政治统一、现代化和重新定义新国家的地方身份的过程中，收集口头传统作为一种区域文化保护的实践而出现。本文考察了Pitrè对其作品《寓言》的导言，以便将他对西西里民间故事和童话的比较研究方法和跨国研究方法置于语境之中。Pitrè的“序言”和初步论文“民间故事”提供了对当地历史的见解，妇女作为讲故事的人，以及西西里故事与其他地区传统和跨文化民间曲目的关系。注意到Pitrè对西西里刻板印象的强化，本文强调了他对文化差异作为对文化总体化的干预和抵抗的阐述。Pitrè对海洋传统的比喻最好地概括了他与跨国口头叙事的联系，以及它们跨越国界和扰乱僵化的国家认同建构的力量。

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