Travels to Japan by Italians began to intensify from the post-war period. One of the overall outcomes of such trend is a significant number of travelogues. On the one hand, the earlier works by the most widely known and reputed Italian journalists and writers (such as Montanelli, Calvino, Moravia and Parise, among others), which combine the traditional view of Japan’s cultural heritage with new insights on its contemporary elements, often perceived as conflicting ones. On the other hand, travelogues produced in the 2000s that are less elitist both in their authorship and audience, which draw consistently on popular and mass culture. I will introduce a comprehensive survey of this corpus, which I believe it can prove extremely significant since it delineates a diachronic map of the evolution of the image of Japan’s cultural heritage by Italian society in the last sixty years, an image which these works undoubtedly contributed to foster.

La relazione ha analizzato il cambiamento nella rappresentazione del Giappone da parte degli italiani attraverso i resoconti di viaggio di Montanelli, Moravia, Parise, Arbasino, Calvino, Zucconi e Giunta, e ha messo questi dati in correlazione con opere più recenti prodotti da autori meno noti.

Visions of Japan’s cultural heritage in italian travelogues / Romagnoli, Stefano. - (2014). (Intervento presentato al convegno XI Congreso Nacional y II Internacional AEJE - “Japón y Occidente: el patrimonio cultural como punto de encuentro” tenutosi a Siviglia, Spagna nel 26-29/03/2014).

Visions of Japan’s cultural heritage in italian travelogues

ROMAGNOLI, STEFANO
2014

Abstract

Travels to Japan by Italians began to intensify from the post-war period. One of the overall outcomes of such trend is a significant number of travelogues. On the one hand, the earlier works by the most widely known and reputed Italian journalists and writers (such as Montanelli, Calvino, Moravia and Parise, among others), which combine the traditional view of Japan’s cultural heritage with new insights on its contemporary elements, often perceived as conflicting ones. On the other hand, travelogues produced in the 2000s that are less elitist both in their authorship and audience, which draw consistently on popular and mass culture. I will introduce a comprehensive survey of this corpus, which I believe it can prove extremely significant since it delineates a diachronic map of the evolution of the image of Japan’s cultural heritage by Italian society in the last sixty years, an image which these works undoubtedly contributed to foster.
2014
La relazione ha analizzato il cambiamento nella rappresentazione del Giappone da parte degli italiani attraverso i resoconti di viaggio di Montanelli, Moravia, Parise, Arbasino, Calvino, Zucconi e Giunta, e ha messo questi dati in correlazione con opere più recenti prodotti da autori meno noti.
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