Utopia in Late Modernity: Literary Critiques of the 'Neapolitan Renaissance'
Utopia in Late Modernity: Literary Critiques of the 'Neapolitan Renaissance'
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现代性晚期的乌托邦：“那不勒斯文艺复兴”的文学批评
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10.1093/fmls/cqad007
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2023
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0.2
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Glynn R
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作者：
Glynn R
20 世纪 90 年代的那不勒斯经历了一段非凡的城市和文化复兴时期，被称为“那不勒斯文艺复兴”。本文讨论了两本小说——朱塞佩·蒙特萨诺的《Di questa vita menzognera》（2003）和鲁杰罗·卡普奇奥的《Fuoco su Napoli》（2010）——它们提醒我们注意那不勒斯文艺复兴时期文化和“象征政治”的乌托邦主义及其易受剥削的脆弱性。这两部作品都相信，乌托邦幻想是从它们所回应的社会中产生的，它们都设想了有组织犯罪导致那不勒斯重建为主题公园的后世界末日事件。他们质疑那不勒斯文艺复兴与全球资本的犯罪化以及贝卢斯科尼在国家层面的民粹主义政治的交织。在此过程中，它们体现了露丝·莱维塔斯（Ruth Levitas）对作为产品的乌托邦和作为过程的乌托邦之间的区别，同时探索了乌托邦作为后现代模仿或复古托邦浪漫的当代表现形式。
Naples in the 1990s enjoyed an extraordinary period of urban and cultural renewal known as the ‘Neapolitan Renaissance’. This article addresses two novels – Giuseppe Montesano’sDi questa vita menzognera(2003) and Ruggero Cappuccio’sFuoco su Napoli(2010) – which alert us to the utopianism of the cultural and ‘symbolic politics’ of the Neapolitan Renaissance and its vulnerability to exploitation. Lending credence to the idea that utopian fantasies grow out of the societies to which they are a response, both works envisage post-apocalyptic events leading to the reconstruction of Naples as a theme park, on the part of organized crime. They interrogate the imbrication of the Neapolitan Renaissance with the criminalization of global capital and the populist politics of Berlusconi at the national level. In so doing, they exemplify Ruth Levitas’s distinction between utopia as product and utopia as process, while exploring utopia’s contemporary manifestation as postmodern pastiche or retrotopian romance.