The Southern Question

A New Edition

Antonio Gramsci

Translated by : Pasquale Verdicchio

9788198863416

Language: English

108 Pages

5.5 x 8.5 Inches

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A hundred years after it was written, Antonio Gramsci’s The Southern Question continues to shine a light on our world today.


In The Southern Question and many of his subsequent writings in The Prison Notebooks, Gramsci elaborated a notable series of observations and commentary on Italian and world issues. Among them are the relationship between the city and the countryside (North/South); the potentially revolutionary alliance between Northern workers and Southern peasants; the role and position of intellectuals within the narrative spaces provided by the interaction of diverse polities; the variegated nature and processes of hegemony; and questions of cultural formation and propagation.


Testimony to The Southern Question’s continued importance is Edward Said’s observation that ‘under-read and under-analysed [it] goes beyond its tactical relevance to Italian politics in 1926. [It is] a prelude to The Prison Notebooks in which [Gramsci] gave, as his towering counterpart Lukács did not, paramount focus to the territorial, spatial, geographical foundations of social life’.

The purpose of this new edition, with a fresh translation, is to demonstrate how The Southern Question is relevant to discussions on state formation, diasporas, and potentially revolutionary alliances in varied contexts, from Central and South America to the Indian sub-continent.

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) helped found the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1921 and was its Secretary. He was imprisoned by Mussolini’s fascist government in 1926 and was released shortly before his death. In jail, Gramsci wrote his celebrated Prison Notebooks, among the most influential and original contributions to Marxist theory and philosophy.

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Pasquale Verdicchio

Pasquale Verdicchio (b. 1954) is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California San Diego, where he taught Italian studies, film, cultural studies, and environmental literature. As a translator he has published the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giorgio Caproni, Antonio Porta, and Andrea Zanzotto, among others. His own poetry, reviews, essays, and photography have been published in journals and in book form by a variety of presses. His books include Bound by Distance: Rethinking Nationalism Through the Italian Diaspora (1996), Devils in Paradise: Writings on Post-Emigrant Cultures (1997), Looters, Photographers, and Thieves (2011), Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild (2016), and From Neo Realism to Nuovo Realismo: Encounters with the Real, co-edited with Loredana Di Maritno (2017). During 1998–2000, and again from 2017–2020, he was Director of the University of California’s Study Centers in Italy.

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