Writing as freedom, writing as testimony
Subtitle: four Italian writers and Judaism
By: Sergio Parussa.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780815631989
Subjects: Italian literature -- Jewish authors; Italian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Jewish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Authors, Italian -- 20th century; Jewish authors -- Italy; Judaism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The maternal borders of the soul: identity, Judaism, and writing in the works of Umberto Saba; title: I knew that there was a house: belonging and nonbelonging in the works of Natalia Ginzburg; title: From myth to history: the construction of the narrative Jewish subject in Giorgio Bassani; title: The modesty of Starbuck: on hybrids, Judaism, and ethics in Primo Levi.