Italian women and autobiography
Subtitle: ideology, discourse and identity in female life narratives from fascism to the present
By: edited by Ioana Raluca Larco and Fabiana Cecchini
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781443826556
Subjects: Autobiography; Italian literature; History and criticism; Women authors; Ideology in literature; Women in literature; Gender identity in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Shapes of ideology. A journey beyond fascist models: Fine d'anno by Paola Drigo / Ioana Raluca Larco ; Between novel, biography, and autobiography: the father-daughter relationship in Anna Banti's Artemisia / Chiara De Santi ; Ada Gobetti's Diario Partigiano: valorizing the maternal / Deena Levy; title: pt. 2. Reconsidering ideology, negotiating autobiography. Staging the self into history in Il prigioniero by Anna Laura Braghetti and Paola Tavella: a 'collaborative life narrative' / Fabiana Cecchini ; Reconstructing memories: writing the self and writing the father in Clara Sereni's autobiographical and memorial work / Giulia Po ; La frantumaglia: Elena Ferrante's "fragmented self" / Elda Buonanno Foley.