Across Genres, Generations, And Borders
Subtitle: Italian  Women Writing Lives (Monash Romance Studies)
Contributors: Susanna Scarparo (Editor); Rita Wilson (Editor)
Edition: 1st American Ed edition
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: January 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780874139181
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Women's studies; Women authors; Italian literature; General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Women and literature; Literary Criticism; Italy; European - Italian; 20th century; History; History and criticism
Description: "This book examines the processes involved in writing the lives of women, both as autobiographies and as biographies. Some essays are theoretical discussions about the constructions of self-articulation in women's life writing. Others are more autobiographical, emphasising the importance of self articulation for creating possibilities for self-direction." "Adopting different theoretical approaches, chapters in this collection highlight the connections between subjectivity and history, feminist concerns about mothering and the mother-daughter relationships, autobiography, discourse and its framing of the relationship between text and life, and the ethics of constructing biographies."--Jacket.