One of the greatest biographical achievements of the current 2020s is the story of self – of a young woman who made it – by the one who would become the first woman Prime Minister of the Italian Republic. The book is intended as an act of revenge with respect to the vulgarized storytelling around her person and her consequent political action; in fact, it is itself an action of political storytelling that preludes electoral success and the assumption of the highest governmental responsibilities, in a post-Berlusconi perspective. The tautological title "I am Giorgia" refers to the individualistic personalism of contemporary Western politics, but it also refers to an ostentatious familiarity with the addressee, who is thus assured about the familiarity and closeness of the author to what so many ordinary people experience. The discursive act of self-presentation is split between an underlying claim to an alternative political identity, with respect to the republican constitutional framework, and the sympathetic friendliness that should ensure the ability to express the will of Italians in government action. The woman question is evoked and abused in order to be placed at the service of a vision of interpersonal relations that projects into the neoliberal capitalist context the most backward legacies and opacities of the extreme post-fascist right.
Uno dei maggiori successi biografici dei correnti anni Venti è il racconto di sé – di una giovane donna che ce l’ha fatta – da parte di colei che sarebbe divenuta la prima donna Presidente del Consiglio della Repubblica italiana. Il libro è inteso come atto di rivalsa rispetto allo storytelling vulgato intorno alla sua persona e alla sua conseguente azione politica; in realtà è esso stesso azione di storytelling politico che prelude al successo elettorale e all’assunzione delle massime responsabilità governative, in prospettiva post-berlusconiana. Il titolo tautologico "Io sono Giorgia" rinvia al personalismo individualistico della politica occidentale contemporanea, ma rinvia anche a una ostentata dimestichezza di relazione con il destinatario, al quale vengono così assicurate la familiarità e la vicinanza di interessi rispetto a ciò che vive tanta gente comune. L’atto discorsivo di autopresentazione è scisso tra una sottesa rivendicazione di identità politica alternativa, rispetto al quadro costituzionale repubblicano, e l’amichevolezza comprensiva che dovrebbe garantire la capacità di esprimere il volere degli italiani in sede di governo. La questione femminile è evocata e abusata per essere posta al servizio di una visione dei rapporti interpersonali che proietta in contesto capitalistico neoliberista i più retrivi retaggi e le opacità dell’estrema destra post-fascista.
La sgarbatella
Giuliano Cenati
2025-01-01
Abstract
One of the greatest biographical achievements of the current 2020s is the story of self – of a young woman who made it – by the one who would become the first woman Prime Minister of the Italian Republic. The book is intended as an act of revenge with respect to the vulgarized storytelling around her person and her consequent political action; in fact, it is itself an action of political storytelling that preludes electoral success and the assumption of the highest governmental responsibilities, in a post-Berlusconi perspective. The tautological title "I am Giorgia" refers to the individualistic personalism of contemporary Western politics, but it also refers to an ostentatious familiarity with the addressee, who is thus assured about the familiarity and closeness of the author to what so many ordinary people experience. The discursive act of self-presentation is split between an underlying claim to an alternative political identity, with respect to the republican constitutional framework, and the sympathetic friendliness that should ensure the ability to express the will of Italians in government action. The woman question is evoked and abused in order to be placed at the service of a vision of interpersonal relations that projects into the neoliberal capitalist context the most backward legacies and opacities of the extreme post-fascist right.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
