Title: Across genres, generations and borders
Description: "This book examines the processes involved in writing the lives of women, both as autobiographies and as biographies. Some essays are theoretical discussions about the constructions of self-articulation in women's life writing. Others are more autobiographical, emphasising the importance of self articulation for creating possibilities for self-direction." "Adopting different theoretical approaches, chapters in this collection highlight the connections between subjectivity and history, feminist concerns about mothering and the mother-daughter relationships, autobiography, discourse and its framing of the relationship between text and life, and the ethics of constructing biographies."--Jacket.
Subjects: Italian literature, Women and literature, Italian Authors, History and criticism, Women authors, Italian Women authors, Biography as a literary form, History, Italian literature, women authors, Italian literature, history and criticism, Authors, italian
Places: Italy
Time periods: 20th century