Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000
Subtitle: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Nov 12, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781611477900
Description: "Investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on topics of spatial and cultural boundaries, border identities, and expressions of excluded identities. This book discusses works by known and less-known writers as well as by some new writers: Sibilla Aleramo, La Marchesa Colombi, Giuliana Morandini, Elsa Morante, Neera, Matilde Serao, Ribka Sibhatu, Patrizia Valduga, Annie Vivanti, Laila Waida, among others; writers who in their works have manifested transgression to confinement and entrapment, either social, cultural, or professional; or who have given significance to national and transnational borders, or have employed particular narrative strategies to give voice to what often exceeds expression. Through its contributions, the volume demonstrates how Italian women writers have negotiated material as well as social and cultural boundaries, and how their literary imagination has created dimensions of boundary-crossing." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Source title: Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression