Valentina Pagliai

List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentina Pagliai is involved.

Title

Art and the expression of complex identities: Imagining and contesting ethnicity in performance

Edited by Valentina Pagliai and Marcia Farr

Special issue of Pragmatics 10:1 (2000) ca. 125 pp. | open access

Articles

Pagliai, Valentina and Brooke S. Bocast 2005 Singing gender: Contested discourses of womanhood in Tuscan-Italian verbal art Pragmatics 15:4, pp. 437–457 | Article

In this article, we explore the presentation and contestation of discourses of womanhood in verbal art performance. In Tuscan-Italian Contrasto verbal duels the artists, both males and females, may impersonate female characters as they exchange insults between each other. In doing so, they deploy… read more

Pagliai, Valentina 2000 Lands i came to sing: Negotiating identities and places in the Tuscan “Contrasto”  Art and the expression of complex identities: Imagining and contesting ethnicity in performance, Pagliai, Valentina and Marcia Farr (eds.), pp. 125–146 | Article

This article on a genre of Tuscan Italian verbal art, the Contrasta, uses performance as a key to look at the connections between ethnic identity and place. The Contrasta takes its name, “contrast”, from its humorous representation of a verbal duel among entities, people or ideas. Structurally, it… read more