Yeats’ Imagined Ireland and Postcolonial Theory

Abstract

Abstract:

Alla luce di definizioni della parola ‘cultura’, come quelle espresse da Edward Said e Raymond Williams, questo saggio illustra l’idea che W. B. Yeats aveva della cultura nazionale irlandese in relazione a concetti divenuti poi centrali per gli studi postcoloniali, quali quelli di ‘invenzione della tradizione’, di ‘paesi immaginari o inventati’ e della posizione ‘un-homed’ dell’artista. L’intento è di evidenziare i limiti di definizioni statiche di sistemi complessi e ibridi, e mostrare quanto Yeats fosse cosciente della rigidità di parole quali ‘cultura’, ‘identità’ e ‘tradizione’, come risulta dalle scelte che operò nella sua personale definizione della cultura irlandese.

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