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Adolescence, Fascisms, which examines the socio-cultural, political, and historical times of Pasolini and how they interact or influence his opus, is a fresh, welcome addition to the field of Pasolini and Italian cultural studies.Circular in thematic nature, but chronological by text, this volume examines numerous genres including poetry, prose, film, and even Pasolini's journalistic work/essays through the trope of "youth" and youth culture.Bondavalli's heavily researched work opens the reader's eyes to new interpretations and theories revolving around this civil poet's oeuvre.Divided into six main chapters, plus an introduction and epilogue, this work explores the conceptualization of youth culture from the 1940s until Pasolini's death and the release of Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma in 1975.Chapter 1, "Giovinezza, or The Best of Youth," calls into question Pasolini's earliest writings that deal with youth and its role in Fascist society.In this early encounter, Bondavalli argues that Pasolini expresses the conceptualization of youth as transitory and exilic: "Casarsese mirrored the dialectical nature of youth as exile" as evident in his Poesie a Casarsa from 1942 (36).This chapter explores Pasolini's contributions to Fascist youth journals, correspondence with friends and colleagues, and Pasolini's 1942 collection of poetry in dialect.Chapters 2 and 3 pay particular attention to Pasolini's narratologies.Chapter 2, "Being Young: Bildung, Development, and Growing Up Ragazzi," analyzes Pasolini's novels through the theoretical lens of the European bildungsroman or coming-of-age story.While offering a thorough critique of the individual stories and protagonists, Bondavalli connects that level of interpretation with a "parallel critique of the model of development embraced by Italy in its own coming-of-age as a democracy" (13).This unique reading provides new modes of interpreting Pasolini's novels.In Chapter 3, "Looking Back in Longing: Lost Youth, Teddy Boys, and Il sogno di una cosa," Bondavalli studies Pasolini's contributions to Vie Nuove and to his novel of nostalgia originally written in 1949-1950 but published in 1962.The author characterizes Pasolini's observation of youth as "opportunity and peril" in the late 1950s and early 1960s (13).Chapters 4 and 5 work together as they discuss the difficult and often contrary relationship Pasolini had with the Sessantotto.In these two chapters,
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