Italian women's writing / edited with introduction, notes and vocabulary by Sharon Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Sharon, 1957-

Series:

Italian texts

Manchester Italian texts

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian fiction--Women authors.

Italian fiction.

Short stories, Italian.

Italian fiction--20th century.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

vi, 168 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin Press, 1993.

Summary:

How has it happened that from being politely ignored or marginalised just half a century ago, women writers in Italy are now at the centre of literary activity? To what extent does writing by women reflect the successes and failures of Italy in the post-war period? What form did the feminist movement in Italy take, and how did this affect what - and how - women wrote? And how are women who write responding to a more fragmented post-modern age? These are just some of the questions asked of the relationship between women and fiction in post-war Italy in the anthology Italian women writing. Included are stories by Cialente, Ginzburg, Ortese, Morante, Romano, Maraini and Duranti, as well as Bompiani, Sanvitale, Mizzau, Scaramuzzino, Capriolo and Petrignani. The thirteen stories presented, some of which are published here for the first time, offer a range of style and content indicative of the wealth and diversity of writing by women, and their reading is supported by critical notes and an extensive vocabulary. This is a clear and challenging introduction to the rich field of women and fiction in Italy.

Notes:

Text in Italian; introd. and notes in English.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

071903891X

OCLC:

28063803