Serial Austen. Mashingups with Zombies
Abstract
Jane Austen vende sempre, e in ogni modo. I suoi romanzi sono stati adattati per il cinema e per il teatro, e sono stati trasposti in graphic novels. L’autrice stessa è diventata un’icona culturale. L’interesse nei confronti della sua esistenza è così forte che sono state scritte innumerevoli biografie per svelarne ogni più piccolo dettaglio. I luoghi in cui ha vissuto e quelli rappresentati nei suoi romanzi sono diventati meta di veri e propri pellegrinaggi letterari. La Austen è un fenomeno culturale che attraversa i diversi generi e media, vengono perfino ricreati i balli del periodo regency riprendendo dettagli e personaggi dai suoi romanzi, ed i suoi scritti sembrano subire un infinito processo di riscrittura e rimediazione. Il presente saggio prende in considerazione in particolare il mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), di Seth Grahame-Smith (e di Jane Austen), vero e proprio fenomeno culturale dell’ultimo decennio, e vuole mostrare come questo testo possa essere interpretato come narrativa seriale. Se come Henry Jenkins afferma, la serialità implica uno sviluppo della storia nel tempo attraverso un processo di “chunking” (ovvero il ricreare parti centrali della stessa storia) e di “dispersal” (ovvero spezzare la storia in più parti in vari generi e media), dobbiamo riconoscere che i romanzi mash-up fanno proprio questo. La storia della Austen rimane come semplice “story-hook” che spinge il lettore a leggere altri prodotti per cercarne una continuazione, un seguito, o un prequel. Se da un lato, la serialità viene riprodotta attraverso lo stesso testo, lo storytelling austeniano si riflette in diversi generi e media come parte di un vero e proprio processo seriale.
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