mimicry (in Gramsci)

Italian translation: imitazione

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English term or phrase:	mimicry
Italian translation:	imitazione
Entered by:	_floriana_

12:56 Oct 5, 2007

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English term or phrase: mimicry (in Gramsci)

... cultural identities are the result of a two-way interchange, in which the subaltern can, through a process of ***mimicry*** (a concept developed by Gramsci long before contemporary cultural theory), appropriate aspects of dominant culture for their own strategic purposes.

Ho trovato vari casi in cui si usava il termine "imitazione", ma non sono sicura che sia la traduzione giusta: sospetto che "mimesi" sia quella più appropriata ma non ho trovato occorrenze con Google...

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imitazione

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Mimesis, not mimicry from Comparative Literature in Array provided free by ... as exiles in their own country like Nora Zeale Hurston or Antonio Gramsci); ...
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... "quistione della lingua" di cui parla Gramsci nei Quaderni dal carcere, ..... Babha presenta così quella che definisce "imitazione ironica o mimicry": ...
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asociados en la perspectiva de Gramsci a la hegemonía: la sociedad ..... La propuesta de Amin contiene implícitamente la idea de imitación (mimicry) ...
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liz askew
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mimetismo

Fiamma Lolli

mimesi

Gianluca Baldo

imitazione

liz askew

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8 mins confidence:

mimicry (in gramsci) mimetismo

Explanation:
Capacità di cambiare idee e atteggiamenti col mutare della situazione o delle circostanze, spec. per mancanza di carattere o per opportunismo: m. ideologico, politico (dal De Mauro).
Secondo me mimesi, in questo contesto, non funziona.

Fiamma Lolli
Italy
Local time: 12:25
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25 mins confidence:

mimicry (in gramsci) mimesi

Explanation:
Prova a cercare "Gramsi mimesi" su google, verifica anche altre varianti, ma il termine piu' corretto mi pare mimesi.

Gianluca Baldo
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mimicry (in gramsci)

imitazione

liz askew
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English
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