Relational Spaces
Subtitle: Daughterhood, Motherhood, and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini's Writings and Films
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780838638965
Subjects: Films, cinema; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women in motion pictures; Literature: Classics; General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Women Authors; Maraini, Dacia; European - Italian; Characters; Criticism and interpretation; Women; Women in literature
Description: "As one of Italy's renowned twentieth-century authors and a founder of the late twentieth-century Italian women's movement, Dacia Maraini has been a keen observer of social realities, and has produced a body of work chronicling women's experiences in Italy. To chart these experiences, she has addressed questions of identity, subjectivity, and their cultural construction. Many of her texts situate the heroines in social discourses at the heart of the changing landscape of postwar Italian society.".

"Undertaken from the 1960s to the present, Martini's textual investigation of the relationship between her heroines and these discourses has lead to the analysis of the primary site of women's development, the family."--BOOK JACKET.