Nel nome della madre
Subtitle: Neera, Sibilla Aleramo, Alba de Céspedes e Anna Banti
By: Mariangela Tartaglione ; premessa di Laura Guidi
Edition: I edizione.
Series: Le sibille -- 3
Publisher: Aracne editrice int.le S.r.l.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ariccia (RM)
Language: ita
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9788854881631
Subjects: Motherhood in literature; Mothers in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Description: The experience of maternity imbues the narrative of Italian authors of the late 19th century, and it weaves together the personal experiences of these authors with those experiences that they have invented for the protagonists of their narrative worlds. Thus it becomes a means of reconstructing the scattered fragments of a feminine cultural heritage, and for recovering the original language of maternity, the node of intersection between the real and the symbolic. This study has a dual purpose: to restore a voice to some Italian writers overlooked by the official literary canon, and to observe the way in which their literary invention reflects the gradual shift of maternal experience from a purely oblative function to a more conscious and reasoned modality of experientation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.