Transculturalità e tranculturalismo: i nuovi orizzonti dell’identità culturale

Abstract

This paper argues that the concepts of multiculturalism and interculturalism, both as patterns of cultural interaction and as ideologies, should be overcome in favour of an analytical and operative model based on a new conceptualization of culture which is emerging from different interdisciplinary debates on transnationalization and has been elaborated by Wolfgang Welsch as “transculturality”. This concept offers a new paradigm of cultural identity formation and, together with its complementary term “transculturalism”, indicating a new ideology of cultural interaction, opens up new perspectives for the study of literatures marked by migration, hybridization and cross-culturalcreolization.

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