Africa in the PPP Notes. Between Anthropology and Politics
Abstract
Pasolini imagined Africa as the setting for an ideal 20th century Orestiade, the first chapter of a vast project dedicated to the southern hemisphere, unfortunately unfinished. However, the documentary Notes for an Orestiade (1970) remains, made after two stays in Uganda and Tanzania respectively in December 1968 and February 1969. In his journey through cities and towns on the trail of a society suspended between industrialization and the spiritual heritage of antiquity made of myths and gods, Pasolini searched for the origins of humanity, paying a Platonic homage to the Man of Kibish and, at the same time, searching an humanity still uncontaminated by neocapitalism. Our text wants to emphasize the contradictions in this work by Pasolini and also his original reading of postcolonial Africa of 1970.
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