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Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000 : Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression.

Sambuco, Patrizia.

Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000 : Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (148 pages)

Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I -- 1.1 Confinement, and Shifting Boundaries in Post-Unification Writing by Women -- 1.2 Women Writers Confined: The Case of Neera -- 1.3 Nineteenth-Century Women Writers between Marginality and (Aspirations of) Inclusion: A Puzzling Balance -- 1.4 Sardinian Confines in the Works of Grazia Deledda -- Section II -- 2.1 Boundaries, the Work of Writing and the Female Soul -- 2.2 The Dialogue with the Dead in Patrizia Valduga's Requiem -- 2.3 Staging Motherhood: Considering Annie Vivanti's Fact and Fiction -- 2.4 The Shadow of the Author in La Storia -- Section III -- 3.1 Topographies of Identity -- 3.2 Across Languages, Cultures, and Nations: Ribka Sibhatu's Aulò -- 3.3 The Mediation of Borders, in Greta Vidal by Antonella Sbuelz Carignani -- 3.4 Crossing Boundaries and Borders: Matilde Serao's Travel Writing -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This book investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today and considers the topics of boundaries and borders in their writings.

9781611477917


Women and literature -- Italy.


Electronic books.

PQ4055.W6 I88 2014

850.9/9287

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